“It is on record that the this government rode to power through the popular mass protest against similar action taken by Jonathan administration in 2012. With this action, it does appear that the APC government is taken Nigerians for granted.
“Be that as it may, and as you all know, the organised labour and the civil society collaborators are seriously mobilising to engage the government in a peaceful, nonviolent protests across the nation. SSANU is a member of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and we are fully ready to carry out the directives of our centre (NLC) as soon as we receive the sigal,
“The Senate of UNILAG (as expected) has also come out solidly in defence of Mr. Vice-Chancellor and descended heavily on the Pro-Chancellor and the Registrar, who are seen to be carrying out the mandate of the Visitor as exemplified in his (Mr. President) Anti-Corruption crusade.
“In doing this, the Senate and its collaborators have unwittingly, and hiding under the technicality of due process, attempted to demonise Babalakin and his Council, while canonising itself as the technically ” all in all” and most supreme organ of the university over and above the Council.
“Mush as we wish to remain neutral in the UNILAG matter as much as possible, SSANU and indeed Nigerians and the international communities of Anti-Corruption like Transparency International are keenly waiting to see how the matter would be decided in UNILAG.
“We are anxious to see what shall become of Dr. Wale Babalakin, who appeared to have been placed on the slaughter’s slab going by the submission of the UNILAG Senate. The recommendations of this special panel and the pronouncement of the Villa on this matter, will go a long way to tell Nigerian populace about the direction and seriousness of Mr. President and APC government’s Anti-Corruption war.
“You will recall that, in our last briefing here, we lamented the unwarranted shoddy treatment we were receiving from IPPIS in respect of payment of our salaries and release of our third party deductions, we wish to let Nigerians know that, consequent upon our outcry, IPPIS has started to release our third party deductions albeit in piece meal.
“We wish to state here that, this seemingly positive development notwithstanding, we are not yet fully pleased with IPPIS and we wish to reiterate that, while government is making efforts to test run the University
Transparency and Accountability System (UTAS) developed by ASUU, it should also accept and test run the University General Purpose Payment Platform (UG3P) developed by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of NASU and SSANU, with a view to incorporating them to address the peculiarity of the university system.
“It is indeed very saddening that the Earned Allowances of our members which arose from the 2009 FGN/SSANU Agreement are still largely unattended to as government and its agents have often acted in respect of this issue in a way that suggests that for as long as the Earned Allowances of the Teaching staff are paid, even though if that of the Non-Teaching staff are not paid, there would be little or no problem.”
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