Kogi NUT Cries Out Over Non-payment of Salary to 70% of Teachers

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…please, use your divine mandate to salvage teachers and education in Kogi State

The leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kogi State chapter, has described as most the degrading and inhuman treatment of teachers by by successive governments in the state as unfortunate.

In an address by the Kogi state chairman of NUT, Comrade Suleiman Ndalayi Abdullahi, on the occasion of the celebration of World Teachers Day in Lokoja last week, the union berated past administrations in the state for paying lip service to education development in Kogi State.

Comrade Abdullahi lamented the situation in Kogi state where seventy percent of teachers in the state are being owed backlog of salaries by the government.

“Recently, the state government accessed the much awaited Bailout fund which was meant to clear backlog of salaries and generally ameliorate the suffering of workers.  While other category of workers including Local Government Area staff got 100% Minimum wage for 3 months and above, only about 30% of the teachers of Kogi State were paid 60% salaries for three months from the bailout fund”, he said.

“We should remember as a fact that teachers are people with families and dependants to feed, bills to pay and with responsibilities like any other worker in this state.

“The prompt payment of the teachers wages is an inalienable right that has been maliciously trampled upon by successive governments; the claim that teachers are either too many or enrollment not ascertained is a callous way of shying away from their responsibilities.

“The teacher is only demanding for his legitimate right to be given to him as at when due; we are not asking for what is not our entitlement, neither are we asking for extras, we are not asking for personal materials for ourselves but provisions of teaching/learning materials, we are not asking for comfort for ourselves but improved teaching/learning conditions in our schools; all we are asking for is the entitlements of the teachers, providing and upgrading of infrastructure to make teaching effective and learning meaningful.  The future of our children should be a thing of concern to all of us.

“Your Excellency, the attempt to clean the system of rot is laudable but care must be taken so that genuine and qualified teachers should not loose their jobs.  Your Excellency we plead that you use your divine mandate to salvage teachers and Education in Kogi State.

 


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