NLC Speaks On SSANU, NASU Strike.

National President, Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, says the Federal Government must pay the four months withheld salaries of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions.

Ajearo spoke in reaction to the seven-day warning strike that SSANU/NASU which began on Monday, and incidentally grounded universities’ activities across the country.

This is coming after SSANU and NASU had for about a month called the attention of the government to its exclusion from the payment of the withheld salaries which it commenced payment for the Academic Staff Union of Universities in February, while, their salaries were withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari who invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay policy’ against the Academic Staff Union of Universities and SSANU for embarking on a strike that lasted eight months and four months in 2022 respectively.

A statement signed by Ajaero, said, the NLC has joined the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities in demanding the immediate payment of the withheld salaries of their members, stressing that, no credible reason or explanation for withholding those salaries in the first place.

Meanwhile, the National President of SSANU, Muhammed Ibrahim said, the strike recorded 90 per cent success, while, SSANU and NASU in a letter jointly signed by the chairpersons of the unions Kpamor Ruth and  Saa Moses, in Makurdi, said they waited patiently till the expiration of the ultimatum without a positive response to their demands, which compelled the University of Abuja,  SSANU members blocked the entrance to the university gate on Monday.