The striking Non-Teaching Staff
of the Nigerian Universities has threatened to disrupt the 2018 Joint Admission
and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME), set to hold from March 9.
Mr Samson Ugwoke, Chairman, Joint
Action Committee (JAC), Non-Teaching Staff of the Nigerian Universities, made
the threat at a meeting of the National JAC with the Principal Branch Officers
on Wednesday in Abuja.
This year’s Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME), will begin on Friday.
It is scheduled to hold from
March 9 to March 17
Ugwoke said that the threat
became imperative as the Federal Government had continued to renege on the
agreement it entered with the unions.
According to him, “since our
strike continues, JAC has decided that no activity will take place in the
universities.”
“This is because if we are on
strike and you expect our members to come and supervise JAMB or come to operate
their machines like the computers, that means we are breaking the strike
already.
“JAC has also decided that to
redraw their assistance they would not go to work. So all I know is that as
long as we are on strike, JAC has decide that there will be no exam.
“Our members will not participate
and they will make sure that the exam does not hold in the universities that is
the position of JAC, ‘’ he said.
He noted that JAC has also
decided to hold a mega mass protest rally on Thursday, March 8, to sensitise
the public on the issue of alleged corruption and the social injustices in the
Nigerian university system.
He added that the problem of
corruption would continue to cripple the university system, unless the Federal
Government takes a decisive step to tackle the menace.
The Non-Teaching Staff of
Nigerian Universities are made of the Non Academic Staff Union of Nigerian
Universities (NASU), Senior Staff Academic of Nigerian Universities(SSANU)
National Association of Academic Technologists, (NAAT).
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