It’s unjust to pay ASUU N30bn without supplementary budget and give same reason for non-payment of non-academic unions’ N18bn arrears –SSANU president, Ibrahim Published 10 February 2021 Mr Mohammed Ibrahim is the National President, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities. In this interview with GRACE EDEMA, he speaks on issues surrounding the ongoing strike of the non-academic staff of the nation’s varsities among others The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, said the Joint Action Committee of non-teaching staff had no legal or moral right to go on strike. Is this the correct position? The question of morality is subjective because when you say that somebody has no right, I don’t want to believe that because the ILO (International Labour Organisation) and the labour laws in Nigeria give the employees the right to go on strike if due process is followed in the pursuit of their grievances. You know and you are aware that we have had issues with the government since 2009. We have had a series of engagements and all the engagements we have been having are aimed at solving the problem. This agreement that we signed was on the matter that affected directly the lives of our members and of late; we signed an MoU with government in November.