Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities on Thursday gave a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to stop the implementation of the report on the NEEDS Assessment of Nigerian Public Universities Committee or risk an industrial action.
The association also accused the Federal Government of insincerity in the payment of its members’ allowances.
The association’s Federal University of Technology, Akure branch Chairman, Mr. Benedict Chukwuma, who addressed reporters in Akure, said the NEED report was targeted at retrenching non-teaching staff of the nation’s public universities.
According to him, the association is rejecting the report because it aims at downsizing members of the association.
Alleging that the report was ill conceived, Chukwuma added that it recommended the transfer of non-teaching staff to federal and states ministries of education.
He said, “The government position is unrealistic and unacceptable. We therefore call on the Federal Government to do away with the report submitted by the NEEDS Assessment Committee because it was made in bad fate and therefore leaves much to be desired.”
Chukwuma explained that the Joint Action Committee of the non-teaching staff had met with the Federal Government team led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, where it submitted the association’s reaction to the report.
Calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to review the report, Chukwuma said, the ultimatum was to enable the Federal Government to respond to the association’s grievances over the matter.
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