The Father Moses Orshio Adasu University Chapter of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Associated and Educational Institutions, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Thursday took to the campus streets, in numbers, in protest over failure of the government and the University authorities to meet their earlier stated demands.
The protesters, who began procession from the University’s First Gate to the Second Gate, chanted solidarity songs, to draw government’s attention to their plight.
They were seen carrying placards with different inscriptions including “we can no longer feed our families or transport ourselves to work,” “JAC is hungry,” “monkey de work, baboon de chop, Never!” “JAC is hungry,” “put smiles on our faces now,” and several others.
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Recall that the union has been on strike over failure of concerned authorities to react to their demands including implementation of the new national minimum wage, as well as twenty-five per cent and thirty-five per cent salary increase with payment of all arrears, implementation of promotion increments for staff of the University that were promoted in the past three years with payment of all arrears, payment of gratuity and regular payment of pension with payment of all arrears, and reinstatement of the monthly remittance of the statutory contribution towards the Contributory Pension Scheme with clearance of all backlogs.
The protest obstructed traffic within the school environment, leaving students, lecturers and others stranded at the time of filing this report.
