University workers reject petrol price increase, may join nationwide strike

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) has rejected the proposed plan to increase petrol prices and vowed to join the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in a nationwide protest against the Nigerian government. 

The National President of SSANU, Haruna Ibrahim, stated this during the SSANU 41st Regular National Executive Council (NEC) meeting hosted by the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Osun State, on Thursday.

Ibrahim said Nigerians were already living in difficult times with the price of goods surging beyond control to the extent that citizens could not afford three square meals. 

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He said, “Civil servants leaders cannot fold their hands and allow indigenes to witness another hardship time.”  

The SSANU President explained that the organized labour would soon come out with a position on the planned increase in fuel prices across the country, stressing that the present government was not doing anything better to Nigeria unions especially SSANU.

He decried the national insecurity where banditry, kidnapping, killing have been the order of the day, warning that any increment in fuel price would be vehemently rejected.