SSANU said it had commenced the warning strike to press home its demands, which include the payment of four months' salaries owed to its members.
As the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) embarks on a seven-day warning strike across the country, the association has shut down Modibbo Adama University in Yola, Adamawa State.
The non-teaching staff members of Nigerian public universities under the aegis of the Senior Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) on Monday began a one-week strike.
The industrial action is over alleged unfair treatment and disparity in the payment of their salaries by the Nigerian Government.
SSANU said it had commenced the warning strike to press home its demands, which include the payment of four months' salaries owed to its members.
SaharaReporters earlier reported how the vice president of the association, Dr Abdussobuur Salaam disclosed that they would soon embark on a warning strike during a telephone conversation with SaharaReporters last Monday.
Salaam revealed that the decision to embark on the strike was taken after a resolution at the union's National Executive Council (NEC) meeting which was held two weeks ago.
He said, “We have declared a seven-day warning strike effective from the 18th of March, which is next Monday pending due process within the rank of the union and also pending discussion with our sister union, NASU.
“But as far as SSANU is concerned, the National Executive Council (NEC) on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had resolved that as a union, we will be embarking on a week-long warning strike to press home our demands which had been abandoned by the government since 2022.”
SSANU chairman at Modibbo Adama University, Michael Omokoro told SaharaReporters on Monday that the shutdown would affect water supply, electricity, internet and all other services rendered by members of the association.
"Basically, it is about our four months withheld salaries, the 35 percent wage increment, the N35,000 palliative that stopped in January, the reconstitution of Governing Councils, etc.
"During the seven days, there will be no light, water supply, clinic services, ICT and all other services because we have withdrawn our members," Omokoro said.
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