The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, SSANU and Non Academic Staff Union, NASU on Friday urged the Federal Government to honour their 2009 agreement to avoid total strike.
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The Ahmadu Bello University branch of the two unions made their stand known while addressing a joint press briefing at SSANU secretariat, main campus, Samaru, Zaria, Kaduna State.
SSANU branch Chairman, Iliyasu Abdur-Ra’uf-Bello said the five days warning strike presently embarked upon by the two unions was as a result of the inability of the federal government to implement the 2009 union/Federal Government agreement.
The Chairman lamented that of this N25 billion released by the Federal Government to universities, only 20 per cent of it was given to the three non teaching unions of Nigerian universities.
According to him, this singular action of government is not only embarrassing, but it is insulting and unacceptable, adding that it was one of the reasons why the warning strike was on.
