By Our Correspondents
Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) across the country made good their threat to embark on mass protest on Tuesday to demand the release of their withheld salaries. In Abuja, members gathered at the entrance of the University of Abuja to carry various placards showcasing their demands.
A similar situation was observed at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State where our correspondents who visited the institution saw non-academic staff members of the institution protesting in accordance with the directives of the leadership of the unions.
The aggrieved workers had several inscriptions on their placards as they marched around the university campus, calling on the Federal Government to release their withheld salaries and implement their other outstanding demands.
At the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), in Imo State, our correspondent in the state observed displeased workers as they marched around the university community to press home their demands.
SSANU and NASU members at the Universities of Ilorin in Kwara State also joined the protest. They called on the political leaders to reduce governance costs and cut down their opulence lifestyles to meet their financial demands.
The leaders of the two bodies and their members after a congress held a rally across the university campus. They wondered why the Federal Government could not meet their demands since 2009.
To avoid a total breakdown of university education across the country, the leaders of the two bodies called on the government to hasten action in the implementation of their demands.
It was gathered that the situation was not different at the University of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and some of the other public universities across the country.