SSANU: Why FG should pay our withheld salaries
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has said the ‘no work, no pay’ policy invoked by the Federal Government during the eight months strike embarked by the four unions in the public universities should not affect its members because all the due process as specified by law were followed. SSANU also explained that the four university-based unions rejected the 23.5 percent salary increase offered by the government because it was too meager to cushion the effect of the high cost of living occasioned by the harsh economic situation in the country. The National President of SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, said that the Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising his union and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU decided to suspend the strike because of the respect they have for the government, their patriotism for the country and the plea of students and parents as well as the general public. “It is only proper that as we have done t...