The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) wants President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to pay salary arrears for the four months their industrial action lasted.
Peters Adeyemi, NASU general secretary, said this while addressing a news conference at the union’s ongoing National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Wednesday in Abuja.
Mr Adeyemi said that NEC expects the federal government to make arrangements to pay the salary arrears.
According to NASU, since all parties within the University system have suspended their industrial actions, it behoves the government to start reviewing the hard stance it took while the tertiary institutions were shut down.
“A moratorium was given to the federal government, which will elapse by November 2022. This should serve as a veritable opportunity for the government to sit down and begin to address the existing demands by the unions, one of which is the salary arrears,” he…
