“We did not go on strike in the first instance and we were working until the management of the universities shut down the institutions. For instance, some of our members, including me, concluded our workloads before the closure. We are only unhappy that our members were lumped up with those who went on strike and our salaries were not paid,” he said.
In a related development, non-academic staff who suspended their industrial actions in August are reportedly yet to be paid their withheld salaries.
Report of findings published in a leading newspaper showed that though they suspended their actions for two months and subsequently resumed work, they were last paid in March, this year.
Speaking in an interview, the Chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the University of Lagos chapter, Comrade Olusola Sowunmi, said his members expected that at least a month’s salary be paid for easy commuting between homes and their offices.
He added that the development had put his members in a tight corner.
SSANU, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions (NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), also went on strike last March but suspended action for two months in August.
Recall that ASUU has been on strike since February 14 following alleged refusal of the FG to fulfill an agreement it entered with it in 2009.
