The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has given the federal government a two-week ultimatum to meet their demands or face a strike action.

NAAT President, Ibeji Nwoko, while addressing journalists on Friday, in Abuja, said that the two-week ultimatum would run from February 28 to March 14.

He threatened that the union would begin a nationwide strike from March 17 to March 31, should the government fail to fulfil its promises.

“Going by the government’s continued insensitivity to the genuine earnings/agitations and demands of members of NAAT over many burning issues in re-positioning the laboratories/workshops/studios in the Nigerian Public Universities and the near total neglect of the welfare of members of our Union.

“The Union is being compelled by the government, through its activities and dispositions, to embark on what may turn out to become a total and indefinite industrial action,” he said.

He noted that the reason for their agitations included the non-full implementation of the 2009 FGN/NAAT Agreements, the refusal to release the enabling circular for the implementation of CONTISS 14 & 15 for Academic Technologists, as contained in the MOU of 2017, 2020 and 2021.

(NAN)