The non-academic staff union, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) branches of Ibadan Polytechnic have suspended a week-old strike action.
COLOSSUS GISTS reported how the workers commenced an indefinite strike over eight months’ unpaid arrears and the alleged ‘meagre’ subventions by the Oyo State Government.
The chairmen of NASU and SSANIP, Raji Akande and Ajibola Oyetunde respectively, told COLOSSUS GISTS that the decision to call off the strike was as a result of the intervention of the institution’s governing council.
“The governing council had a meeting with us last week and they have given us their words,” Mr Oyetunde said.
According to Mr Akande, after the meeting with the council, the congress of NASU members met on Monday.
“Our members have also decided that we should consider the suspension at the congress. Although, some of the resolutions of the governing council do not go down with us,” he said.
Also, in a letter of suspension sent to the governing council to notify them of their decision, obtained by COLOSSUS GISTS, NASU stated that “After much deliberations the leadership of the union appealed to the Congress, to allow the management to admit students for the 2018/2019 admission, which we believe the process would be done within two months.”
“The union frowned at the letter sent by the governing council and have no trust in it. The council as matter of urgency should go back to the government to request for bail-outs to defray the (8) eight month salary arrears.”
Thereafter, the chairmen of the two unions told their members to resume work on Tuesday and allow peace reign in all their offices.
The state government, through the commissioner for education, Adeniyi Olowofela, stated that the government is not owing to the staff as highlighted in the unions’ demands and that the governing council of the school should respond to the workers’ grievances.
The 140 judges of the Sharia, Area and Customary Courts of Nigeria serving in Plateau State have commenced an indefinite strike over non-payment of dressing allowances owed them since 2009.
The judges said they recently gave the Plateau State government a 14-day ultimatum to pay the arrears, but the government did not.
Addressing journalists shortly after a closed-door meeting, the chairman of the forum of judges, Ayuba Danzel, said they were left with no option.
“Since government failed to pay us our outstanding dressing allowances for the past nine years, and its refusal to heed to several appeals and the most recent ultimatum given by our association – Sharia, Area and Customary Courts Association of Nigeria (SACCJAN) – we have resolved to embark on an indefinite strike from this day 14th June 2017 till our demands are fully met.”
Mr. Danzel added that “we, the 140 judges will be going to our respective offices as required, but there will be no court sitting until we are paid our outstanding nine years dressing allowances.”
The judge lamented that the state government has deliberately refused to pay them.
He said judiciary staff and state assembly workers, who were owed similar allowances, were promptly paid, but that the state government singled out Sharia, Area and Customary Court judges and refused to pay them till date.
According to Mr. Danzel, the 14-day ultimatum given by SACCJAN elapsed on June 6 without any response from the government.
The state government was yet to react to the strike as at the time of this report.
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