The strike action embarked upon by Non-Academic Staff Unio( NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) have been extended by additional two months.
The extension was contained in a circular to branch chairmen of the two unions on Friday.
The circular dated June 21, 2022, was jointly signed by the General Secretary of NASU, Prince Peters. A. Adeyemi, and Mohammed. N. Ibrahim.
It thanked members of the unions for sustaining the strike action even in the face of denials of salaries, threats and harassment, noting that it has continued to give the national leadership the needed strength and force to forge ahead on the demands.
It urged them to keep up the spirit across the branches and disregard various rumours and misinformation, especially on social media, stating” we are slowly inching closer to victory”.
The circular sighted by Metronetworknews read, “You are hereby informed that the strike has been extended by two months within which we are hoping that all the contentious issues would have been effectively laid to rest.
“The two months extension is with effect from Friday, 24th June 2022
“We have also recorded success in the restoration of Responsibility Allowance to deserving members of NASU and SSANU, ditto, the correction in the payment of Hazard Allowance from N150,000 to N360,000 per annum to deserving members in the SSANU document.
“However, there has been no commitment by the government to pay the arrears of Earned Allowances being owed our members.
” We have continued to follow up on the resolution reached with the government at the Tripartite Plus meeting held on Thursday, 12th May, 2022, with respect to the testing of our University Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System (U3PS) software with the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA.
“The three payment solutions, U3PS, UTAS and IPPIS, are currently being subjected to daily tests which have spanned three weeks so far and are still ongoing”.
