Verification: ASUU, SSANU, others kick, reject Saraki’s committee

The Joint Action Committee of four trade unions of the Federal University, Otuoke , Bayelsa State, has accused Senator Gbemisola Saraki of allegedly running the institution unilaterally and without recourse to due process .
Senator Gbemisola Saraki is the institution ’s Pro- Chancellor and Chairperson of the Governing Council .
The JAC , comprising the Academic staff Union of Universities ; the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities; the National Association of Academic Technologists and Non- Academic Staff Union , carpeted Saraki for allegedly disallowing a properly -constituted Committee on Staff Verification to submit their report .
The staff verification committee , which was saddled with the mandate of looking into the issues of staff welfare , promotions , salary disparity , tax remitances, pension remission, statutory allowances, confirmation of appointment , among others had reportedly submitted its report to the Governing Council .
They claimed that instead of the Pro-Chancellor to work on the report of the committee, she allegedly disregarded it and constituted another Ad -Hoc Committee unilaterally to look into staff welfare and complaints as well as to probe the protest in the institution on May 23 , 2017.
In a communique issued on Friday after the end of their emergency meeting at the ASUU Secretariat Complex of the university , JAC rejected the constitution of the ad- hoc committee by Saraki , insisting that the groups must know the outcome of the first committee.
The communique signed by Chairman, ASUU , Dr. Joseph Omoro ; Chairman, SSANU , Kalizibe Joseph; Chairman, NAAT, Ama Uduma and Chairman, NASU, Bestman Egba, also berated the Pro- Chancellor for allegedly conducting the meetings of council in Abuja instead of FUO.
The JAC , therefore , gave the governing council a 21 -day ultimatum , with effect from Friday , June 23 , 2017 to address all the issues raised in the communique to avoid a showdown .