The Federal University, Lokoja, FUL Chapter of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has pleaded with the federal government to urgently pay the four months’ worth of unpaid salary with immediate effect since its members are choking.
This appeal was made by Comrade Adedeji Kazeem Suarau, Chairman of the FUL chapter of SSANU, during a news conference on Thursday at the College of Health Sciences Conference Hall on the Adankolo campus in Lokoja.
In order to continue the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, he proposed that the renegotiation committee be recreated to include members from the SSANU and NASU.
The Federal Government Joint Committee on peculiarities of University on IPPIS, he pointed out, should include the representatives of all university-based unions.
He also called on the National University Commission, NUC, to give a directive to stop the usurpation of headship operations of the body by the teaching counterparts.
Comrade Suarau posited: “Federal Government should pay the omitted members in the payment of minimum wage arrears; Federal Government should pay promotion arrears of University Staff for 2018 (Balance), 2019, 2020 and 2021 (and implementation of 2021 Promotion) and personnel budget of the universities should be adequately funded to cater for salary shortfall in the universities.”
He called on government to “pay backlogs of our salaries on compassionate ground” while also urging the payment of “Third Party deductions for the months of October and November 2022, as a matter of urgency.”
