Another group of universities workers has threatened to make the impending resumption by university students impossible should the government fail to address its grievances.
The National Association of University Technologists said there is a disparity in the allocation of the funds released to university unions by the government saying after 14 days, it will also shut the institutions.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities just called off its 10 month old strike before the close of 2020.
The action had given hopes of resumption at the universities in the early part of the year.
The President of NAAT, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma, told journalists in Abuja that the Union has written to the Minister of Labour and Employment, informing him of their planned industrial action.
He said: “We have written to the government that NAAT as a body ought to have been given a specified percentage of the N40 billion. You must define it. You can’t just say ASUU 75 per cent and others 25 per cent. Let us know the specific percentage you are giving to NAAT as a union.
“In the MoU, we entered with the government on November 18, in item number 2b, we demanded that in sharing of the N40 billion released; that government should clearly define what is going to be allocated to each Union and government agreed to the genuineness of our demands and said NUC and the Federal Ministry of Education will work it out in conjunction with the union. And what they have done negates completely the spirit of that MoU.
“We have given government ultimatum of 14 days. We wrote to the government on 30th December. And we have given government 14 working days and if at the end of the 14 working days our demands are not met, we resume our suspended strike. Definitely, we will close down the schools, definitely, there will be no opening of schools. If anybody thinks that ASUU has called off the strike and that schools will reopen, then let the person dare us. Let us know how effective or how possible it is for schools to reopen when Technologists are on strike.
