Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) to embark on a two-week warning strike from Monday 4, January 2021, it has emerged.
The union who disclosed this at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Thursday, said they are embarking on the strike over the federal government’s inability to address her demands.
SSANIP is aggrieved about federal and state governments’ failure to implement NEEDS assessment report and release funds for the polytechnics as had been done for the university.
NEEDS assessment is a systematic set of procedures that are used to determine needs of an organization, examine their nature and causes, and set priorities for future action.
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The union is also demanding the release of the scheme of service for the polytechnics, which it said had been put on hold by National Board for Technical Education for three years without explanation.
Other demands of the polytechnic workers include;
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.
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.
National President of SSANIP, Comrade Adebanjo Ogunsipe at the end of the meeting said;
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.
He added;
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.
