The plan by members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) University of Ibadan branch to embark on protest over non implementation of the 2009 agreement by the Federal Government was yesterday

stalled.

The UI chapter of SSANU, under the leadership of Wale Akinremi had held a congress at the Theatre Art Department of the university from where the members would have trooped out in their hundreds with placards to protest the non-implementation of the agreement, but for the intervention of the South-West Zonal Vice-President, of the union, Comrade Alfred Ilesanmi Jimoh.

The serene peace of the University of Ibadan (UI) would have been threatened by the protest planned by the institution's chapter of the association over the 2009 agreement signed with the Federal Government. It would be recalled that the current nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was based on the same agreement the FG entered

into with the various workers' unions of the universities in 2009 but which was not yet implemented. Jimoh, who based his appeal on the series of meetings going on between the national body of the association and the representatives of the Federal Government towards giving the members their

due,he said the time was not auspicious for protest now.

However, he counseled the government to perish the thought of selective payment of the earned allowance to the university staff if “it wants peace to continue to reign on the campus”.

He added that should the government in concert with the universities' managements make the payment of the allowance selective, they will create more problems than they are trying to solve.

At the congress where the chapter chairman, Akinremi briefed the members on the latest development as regards the N30bn released by the FG due to the on-going strike by their counterpart in the academic union, it was resolved that the money was a far cry from what could solve the problem on ground.

Akinremi, who described the position of the Federal Government as a booby trap said the Vice-Chancellors of the federal universities should be careful not to be deceived, asking that the government should tell the whole Nigerians why it was not releasing the whole amount as agreed as far back as 2009. While acknowledging the fact that the present government could not be held responsible for the rot in the education system which he described as an

accumulated problem, he however insisted that the present administration had no choice than to implement the agreement as it was signed in 2009.

He disclosed that the chapter had planned to protest round the campus and up to the main gate of the institution to express their displeasure at the way the government was treating the university workers, but for the intervention of the zonal vice president of the union.