The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has declared that its members will commence a nation-wide strike on Monday over the non-payment of salaries to University workers.

CEOAFRICA gathered that this decision was subsequent to the letters written to the Vice Chancellors of some Federal Universities, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, the Minister of Labour and productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, the Minister of State for Education, Barrister N. Wike and the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie.

It would be recalled that the union had warned earlier that if by Friday, 27 September (i.e. today) the salaries had not been paid, it would not hesitate to direct its members to stop coming to work, advising the vice chancellors, the SGF and the Ministers of Labour and Education to take immediate steps to remedy the situation.

The conclusion part of the letter which has been circulated to the relevant authorities read thus: “We, therefore, demand that the August salaries of our members in your university be paid to them on or before Friday, 27 September, 2013. Failure to pay by that day will be regarded as a conclusive act of aggression against the economic right and interest of our members.”

“We shall then be at liberty to direct them on work stoppage as our members would no longer be in position to continue to transport themselves to work. We urge you to take immediate steps to remedy this anomaly.”