Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of the  University of Jos, Plateau State have joined the ongoing strike.

They joined the strike on Monday paralysing activities at the school.

When Punch visited the institution on Monday, the gates of the university were shut, while staff and students who tried to gain entrance were left stranded.

Last Monday, SSANU and NASU declared a seven-day warning strike.

The unions said the declaration was made to demand the payment of four months of withheld salaries of their members by the Federal Government after the 2022 nationwide strike.

Meanwhile, the National President of SSANU, Muhammed Ibrahim, informed The PUNCH on Sunday that the two unions were set for their nationwide strike.

But the Minister for Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said he was unaware of SSANU/NASU’s planned strike.

However, in a letter that SSANU and NASU jointly addressed to the Vice Chancellor of the University, the chairman of the institution’s branch of NASU, Monday Danjuma Kpaji and his counterpart in SSANU, Anthony T. Joro, said the strike that would last for seven days  was in line with the directive of their national secretariat

The letter which was copied to the Plateau State Commissioner of Police and the Director of State Services was sighted by our correspondent in Jos on Monday

It read in part “We bring you fraternal greetings from the secretariat of the Joint Action Committee of NASU and SSANU, University of Jos branch.

PUNCH Online earlier reported that SSANU and NASU members at the University of Ilorin on Monday also embarked on strike in compliance with the directive of the national bodies of the two unions.