SSANU threatens strike, warns FG against full implementation of Needs Report

SSANU threatens strike, warns FG
against full implementation of Needs
Report
on december 21, 2013 at 2:39 am in news
By Simon Ebegbulem, B/City
THE Senior Staff Association of the Nigerian
Universities (SSANU),Western Zone, yesterday
threatened to down tools if the Federal Government
decides to fully implement the Needs Assessment
Report which it described as poisonous to Non-
Academic Staff in universities.
Addressing newsmen on the issues raised by the
Prof. Yakubu led Needs Assessment Committee at a
lecture held at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), the
National Vice President and chairman Western
Zone, of the SSANU, Comrade Alfred Jimoh, said the
association had earlier faulted the composition of
the Needs committee set up by the Federal
Government to identify the gaps in the university
system.
He said the committee was not only “lopsided but
one sided because it excluded both students and
the non-teaching staff in the system and
compromise only members of the Academic Staff
and the then incumbent President of ASUU. “The
report of the committee is laced with some
poisonous and odious recommendations against the
Non teaching staff, which we call satanic verses of
Needs Assessment Report”.
He said therefore that “one cannot but wonder how
government could expect an objective and
dispassionate report from such a warped and highly
skewed committee. True to type and as anticipated
by the Non teaching staff of Nigerian universities,
the committee came out with a voluminous
document full of graphics, illustrations and pictorials
which range from truth to half truth and altar false
hood.
“We the Non teaching staff Unions particularly the
Western zone of the SSANU have at every fora
given warning to the Federal Government to discard
the offensive parts of the Needs report which seek
to determine the job Non teaching staff of Nigerian
universities and halt their human development
through training and retraining” he said. He further
warned that the full implementation of the report
would be resisted through industrial action.