The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) has condemned the Federal Ministry of Education’s plan to stop the funding of staff schools in federal universities.
During a peaceful protest on Wednesday, members of the University of Ibadan (UI) branch of SSANU, described the step as “repugnant, in bad taste and offensive”.
They carried placards with inscriptions such as: “Prof Okojie, Executive Secretary of NUC must go; The future of our teachers is the future of our children; Nigeria unemployment market is already saturated, don’t add university staff schools to it; An Obnoxious act, we reject it in entirety. We are not ghost workers but were employed by the council of our universities. Tell us why this discrimination. Is it because your children do not attend staff schools? SSANU says no to privatisation of University Staff Schools.”
The Vice-President of SSANU, Southwest zone, Comrade Alfred Jimoh, said the implementation of such a directive would contravene the creation of universities, and also undermine the industrial peace in the system.