The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has urged the Kano State government to pay its members their outstanding entitlements, citing unbearable economic hardships. The North West Zone of SSANU highlighted that the Kano State government owes members of the two state-owned universities various entitlements, including promotion arrears, hazard arrears, arrears of earned allowances, and the 2018 consequential adjustment on minimum wage arrears.
According to the union, the affected universities are Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology (ADUSTECH), formerly Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, and Yusuf Maitama Sule University (YUMSUK), formerly Northwest University, Kano.
In a statement issued at the end of its 6th Regular Executive Council Meeting held at the Federal University Birnin Kebbi, and signed by the National Vice President, Aliyu Adamu, and the Zonal Acting Secretary, Hauwa Abdullahi Danbatta, SSANU expressed surprise that the Kano State government has yet to pay members at ADUSTECH their 2021 and 2022 promotion arrears, hazard arrears, arrears of earned allowances, and the consequential adjustment on minimum wage arrears. The statement also noted that members at YUMSUK have not received the outstanding six months of consequential adjustment arrears, and that the palliative paid to civil servants in Kano State was not extended to SSANU members at the two state-owned universities.
Describing the government’s inaction as “absurd,” the North West Zone of SSANU stated that their belief in the Kano State administration’s prioritization of education is challenged by its failure to settle members’ entitlements and the absence of a governing council for more than a year at both universities.
The statement called on the state government to immediately reconstitute the governing councils of both universities and promptly pay all owed arrears of salaries and allowances to the workers.
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