The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, in Ondo state, have joined their counterparts nationwide on the warning strike.
The strike was to protest Federal Government failure to pay its members four months withheld salaries during their strike in 2022.
Nelsdaily gathered that the two unions commenced the strike across the institutions as directed by their national leaders
A visit to the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, showed that the main gates of the institution were locked as early as 8am.
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Union leaders in the institution, manned the gates and turned back their members from their offices.
The SSANU chairman, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo state, Comrade Tayo Ogungbeni told vanguard that the strike in the institution was total as directed by the national leadership of the union.
Also, chairman SSANU in FUTA, Felix Adunbi, also confirmed that the strike was total.
Adunbi declared that ” We’ve grounded all administrative and technical services.
Reports had it that the University Primary School was shut following the strike.
His counterpart at the Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Dayo Damola, said that ” We are on strike because it is an injury to all of us.
Damola warned that any member found defaulting or sabotaging the seven day warning strike, would be dealt with.
Findings by vanguard showed that all the administrative offices and essentials service sections of the Universities were shut down.
Newsmen learnt that members of the institutions have been directed to go home and stay away from work until the end of the 7-day warning strike.
In an interview, students of the FUTA , pleaded with the government to invite the union leaders and resolve their differences.
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