Monday 21st June, 2021: The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (SSANU), has urged the Federal Government to withdraw the circular directing workers of the Staff Schools not to be captured in the preparations of the 2022 budget, insisting that failure to adhere to this, SSANU intends to embark on industrial actions.

The President of the association, Mohammed Haruna, made this known while speaking with newsmen in Abuja.

Haruna, who fumes over the recent attempt by the federal government in the said circular from the Budget Office which directed that the teachers in staff schools should be removed from the Consolidated Salary Scale in the 2022 budget.

He said the reopening of the matter which has been decided by the National Industrial Court by the federal government would affect the industrial harmony being enjoyed in the universities, insisting that there was a subsisting court judgment in favour of the union.

Haruna also stated that such attempt was made six years ago by the federal government and the case was taken to the Industrial Court, which after a long battle, the association got judgement in its favour.

He then accused the federal government of going in contrary to the agreement with the union even when the court had given a judgement on the matter.
He then urged the federal government not to take the back order in getting what the court has denied them as members of the staff of the schools are also bonafide members of universities staff, because they have their employment letters signed by the registrars of various universities as approved by councils.

He also added that if federal government insists in implementing the directive, almost 3,000 of its members would be affected, adding that SSANU will fight the development to finish.