The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) have announced that they will commence a two weeks warning strike from Monday 4, January 2021.
The union who disclosed this at the end of its National
Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja, said they are embarking on the strike
over the federal government's inability to address her demands.
They threatened to cripple activities in the nation’s
polytechnic and also accused the federal government of having a nonchalant
attitude towards issues bordering on education.
Demands of the polytechnic workers include the
implementation of the NEEDS assessment report and release of funds for
polytechnic sector; release of scheme of service for the polytechnic
immediately; non-payment of complete salaries and arrears of minimum wage for
staff of polytechnics and the reconstitution of the Governing Councils of all
Federal and State Polytechnics.
The National President of SSANIP, Comrade Adebanjo Ogunsipe
said at the end of the meeting;
“We want to state, without any avoidance of doubt, that we
have a government that barely listens or attend to issues. We have a government
that care less whether students are locked away from our various institutions
and wasting away valuable time in their lives.
“We have a government that seems not to u understand any
language even when you are pleading for what naturally you should be taken for
granted as done and as we have applicable in other decent and well- ruled
climes, the world over.
“Haven considered everything before us, the union resolved
at the end of this meeting that at the first instance we are embarking on a 14
– days strike in the first instance, commencing from Monday 4th of January,
2021.
“The union wish to make it categorically clear to the federal and state governments that continued failure to take action on all of the issues above will leave us with no option than to take drastic action to see to the implementation of these demands.”
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