The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union have said they no longer have confidence in the Federal Government.
This was in reaction to the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman’s interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday night, where he said that SSANU and NASU would only receive half of their withheld salaries, pending President Bola Tinubu’s approval.
Mamman said, “No, it has not been approved. There is a court judgment on ‘No work, no pay’. ASUU getting four months’ pay was a discretion and decision on the part of the President. So, it doesn’t automatically transfer (to NASU and SSANU) but the matter is under consideration.”
While speaking on what date SSANU and NASU would get their pay, the minister said, “I don’t think it is safe to put a time on it but it’s safer to say that we are on it and we are pushing.”
JAC of SSANU and NASU ended a one-week warning strike on March 24, 2024, over its withheld salaries.
Their salaries were withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay’ policy against the Academic Staff Union of Universities and SSANU who embarked on a strike that lasted eight months and four months, respectively, in 2022.
JAC of SSANU and NASU since March 2024 called the attention of the government to its exclusion from the payment of the withheld salaries when ASUU was paid in February.
