The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has petitioned the Accountant General of the Federation regarding a concerning trend of delays in the payment of its members’ monthly salaries.
According to SSANU, they began experiencing the delays following the migration of staff data to the Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System, GIFMIS platform.
In its petition, SSANU called for urgent intervention to forestall a breakdown of industrial harmony within the nation’s tertiary institutions.
The letter signed by the President of SSANU, Mohammed Haruna Ibrahim, noted that the ongoing delays constitute a breach of the 2022 agreement reached between the Joint Action Committee, JAC, of SSANU/NASU and the Federal Government, an agreement which led to the suspension of a protracted strike at the time.
The letter, which was copied to the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa; the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Mohammed Dingyadi; and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, reiterated that the 2022 agreement included a commitment that no union member involved in the strike would face any form of victimisation. They further called on the office of the Accountant General of the Federation to urgently investigate and resolve the issue by ensuring that university workers receive their salaries in accordance with the general federal payment schedule.