The Senior Staff Association of the Nigerian Universities has called for an indefinite strike on December 24, 2015 to protest a recent decision of the Federal Government to sack 2,000 university workers across the country by January, 2016.

The National President of SSANU, Mr. Samson Ugwoke, said during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday that the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, and the National Universities Commission had written letters of termination to 2,000 members of staff of the universities.

Ugwoke said that the senior staff union of the universities had already dispatched letters to the Ministry of Education, the NUC and the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to withdraw the letters of termination issued to varsity workers of the University of Ilorin, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto and others.

He said that SSANU also urged the Education Ministry and the other agencies to ensure immediate withdrawal of similar letters to vice chancellors to terminate the appointment of personnel of university staff primary schools.

He said the letter dated December 17, 2015 also copied President Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Senate, Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige and others.

Ugwoke added that the 2,000 workers affected in the planned retrenchment exercise were drawn from 31 universities and were employed by the councils of the various institutions to make the requisite contribution to educational development in the institutions and the society over the years.

The SSANU leader noted that the directive to sack the workers who are expected to leave service in January 2016 was contained in a circular said to have been written and signed by a Deputy Director in the Ministry of Education, Mr. E.O Fayemi, on behalf of the minister.

He stated further that the circular dated April 21, 2015, was attached with a memorandum and report from the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission dated March 2014 and February 2014 respectively.

According to him, the commission responded to the circular by directing the removal of personnel of staff schools and other institutions affiliated to the universities from the payroll.

He said, “The implementation of this directive would be a gross violation and breach of the SSANU/FGN 2009 Agreement, which explicitly stated that the University shall bear full capital and recurrent cost of University Staff primary schools.

“It is further shocking to note that till date, the Federal Ministry of Defence still funds the capital and recurrent costs of over 100 Army Children Schools, Command Children Schools, Navy Primary Schools and Air Force Schools; while the Ministry of Police Affairs still funds its Police Children Schools, all from the Federal Treasury.

“We are surprised that an agency of government, the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, could continue with this callous, wicked, insensitive and ill-intentioned agenda, despite our calls, letters, press releases and publications on the issue.

“With the advent of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, we had written series of public and confidential letters on same with no positive response.”

He said that 90 per cent of the pupils of the university staff schools were children of the staff of the institutions stressing that the schools were established alongside other academic components of the universities in some cases.

The unionist said SSANU had to give the December 24, 2015 deadline to the Federal Government as part of the efforts to prevent the over 2000 workers of the universities from being sacked.

Several efforts by Saturday PUNCH to get the response of ASUU National President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, was resisted because he said, “I am out of the country and you don’t expect me to answer you from abroad.”

Also when contacted, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of State for Education, Anthony Akuneme, directed our correspondent to the office of the Education Minister, Adamu Adamu.

But several calls and SMS to the Assistant Director of Press in the Education Ministry, Abdul Onu, were not replied.
http://www.punchng.com/buhari-sacks-2000-varsity-workers/

The SSANU leader noted that the directive to sack the workers who are expected to leave service in January 2016 was contained in a circular said to have been written and signed by a Deputy Director in the Ministry of Education, Mr. E.O Fayemi, on behalf of the minister.

He stated further that the circular dated April 21, 2015, was attached with a memorandum and report from the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission dated March 2014 and February 2014 respectively

See all of them shouting and Abusing Buhari beneath!

Was Buhari the President when the circular for the sack was issued?

So obvious many won't read the content of the news!

Buhari sacking left, right and centre... .hope those zombies who always shout Sai Baba are among those sacked..
SSANU wants to go strike
ASUU wants to Strike
Shiite wants to Strike
Boko Haram is Striking
Niger Delta Militants threatening to Strike
IPOB n MASSOB wants to Strike

Lord help us in this country , Buhari n his people have scammed us , we have entered ONE CHANCE....

Chanji...

amazes me how APC minions keep blaming GEJ 7months into power...

now, see what tolexander wrote

See all of them shouting and Abusing Buhari beneath!
Was Buhari the President when the circular for the sack was issued?
So obvious many won't read the content of the news!

did arusi Okija stop President Buhari from reversing or voiding the circular?

they still blame GEJ for subsidy the want to remove, after they shamelessly organized Occupy9ja...

they blame him for the naira free fall... it was 270 to a dollar yesterday..

they blame him for everything... 7months into power... for how long will they continue like this?

pray for Nigeria

Am not really in support of the retrenchment but they never gave a good reasons not to sack them, besides we all know how the systems work. Close investigation will show that those listed are due to retire or are just Ghost workers or non existing workers.

Kudos to the Federal Government.


Sai Buhari.

He said, “The implementation of this directive would be a gross violation and breach of the SSANU/FGN 2009 Agreement, which explicitly stated that the University shall bear full capital and recurrent cost of University Staff primary schools.

“It is further shocking to note that till date, the Federal Ministry of Defence still funds the capital and recurrent costs of over 100 Army Children Schools, Command Children Schools, Navy Primary Schools and Air Force Schools; while the Ministry of Police Affairs still funds its Police Children Schools, all from the Federal Treasury

The reasons they gave sounds stupid, the words in bold was his reason not knowing that those kids can become orphans at any point in time due to the nature of there parents work while the so called sacked staff are not in danger related to there work.

That man needs some beatings from Buratai.

The man we looked upto as shepherd has eventually become a hunter. Choi!! We've been foolishly scammed!

Lies.

kayboy4y:
Lies.

Zombie alert Zombie oh....Zombie

Let me repeat myself here, the insult this man will receive before the end of his tenure will be Hmmmmmmmm "too much"

Is PMB devoid of human feelings? Nigerians are wiser now so, I expect them to ACT like a goat that has been pushed to the wall.

seunlayi:
Let me repeat myself here, the insult this man will receive before the end of his tenure will be Hmmmmmmmm "too much"

the insults Jonathan got will be Child's play when compared to the insults that will be hurled at Buhari, but APC have them selves to blame, they set a bad precedent where their leaders called Jonathan all sorts of names in public, they insulted Jonathan to a level never before witnessed, now they are feeling the heat n now want to introduce anti Social media bill.
Karma is a B-itch

Really
Whatever happened to the yoyo promises we were sold to buy their rotten package on March 28?
We don enter one chance finish walahi!



www.nairaland.com/attachments/2236329_fbimg1426964019374_jpegf0426a8233bbbeb8b2d08838e693f36e









www.nairaland.com/attachments/2241285_apc20val_jpegd8974d69b37695e4b5dcc89fbc62a3e2

I pledge to Nigeria my Country, to be... Never, never, never give up on Nigeria! We that gym know that "No pain no gain, that's the rule of the game" Just like that guy in the Bible that said it's impossible for big bag of barley/wheat to be sold for 1/2 Shekel as Elijah prophesied, Pessimists, Skeptics and Cynics won't see the great future ahead. One day one day Nigeria shall be Great! In TuFace's voice "Dem no wan die but dem wan go Heaven!"


***Listening to Hopeful***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0XOCs86om0

In all of this.... I must let ya all know, Buhari is still our Messiah. Compared to one zoologist who became father Christmas even in February and March... And let's all be realistic... all D's mess is from the previous government. #clueless idiots

This is shange

Chain

Probaby those workers he sacked are all christains...time to put those brodas selling suya along d road to begin teach mat101

We are all screwed in this country. How can he be the President and every other thing?

Buhari don turn VC?

Buhari acts fast before peoples we turn against your government. Like private, like government. Buhari follows the foot steps of private on retrenchment.

Circular dated April 2015 to sack workers and they are blaming Buhari?

Do these thrice accursed PDP wailers know who was the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in April 2015?

Anyway, I don't blame them. After the recent #DasukiGate, every normal Nigerian is eager to erase the days of clueless Joe from their memory

Why

Picture of ALL the sack letters or adolbilivit

Anyways, click like if you believe 2016 will be your best year yet and you will have a lot to celebrate.

Cheers y'all !!!

Change has come to stay !!!

Zombies! How market?

M

[size=40pt]WHOEVER IS ADVISING BUHARI NEEDS TO BE SACKED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT![/size]

The society'll be at the receiving end because crime rate'll increase.Chai arm rubbers go dey flow 4 9ja now left and right oooooooooo

From Sai Buhari to Kai Buhari...that is change

From that second picture I can judge that the sack contain saw dust and that is why the guy beside the president was able to lift it with just single hand and walk with it while the two lacasera which you thick is it , is not lacasera spimply because it has no true colour of the original Apple drink so I can say that contains heavy metal ready for the construction of refineries cheersssssss