Kogi Teachers' Union Vows To Continue Fighting Until Gov Yahaya Bello Pays Cleared Teachers
Teaching is one profession that forms the building block of the nation. Teachers efforts are invaluable and unquantifiable yet in many states in Nigeria they are the largest victims of unpaid salaries and allowances.
The kogi State chapter of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has vowed to continue fighting for its member until governor Yahaya Bello clears teachers who are still owed by the state government.
While speaking with newsmen, the chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Kogi Chapter, Comrade Ayodele Thomas, said Kogi NUT is not resting until Yahaya Bello's administration pay the cleared teachers who are yet to be paid by the state government.
The NUT chairman said the state government made a promise to pah the cleared teachers in March but failed to meet up with the promise, he added that they are expecting the government to live up to their promise and pay them by the end of April.
The NUT chairman who commended the patience of the teachers for holding for long without salaries further called on the government of Yahaya Bello to consider the plights of the teachers and pay them their salaries by the end of April.
How the Non Payment Of Teachers Salaries Started In Yahaya Bello's Administration
After Governor Yahaya Bello took over the mantle of leadership in January 2016, he kept to his promise on civil service reform and he immediately ordered the civil servants screening to weed off what he termed as ghost workers amongst other corrupt practices for the state to be able to pay genuine workers as and when due.
The Staff Verification and Screening Committee were then inaugurated on February 22, 2016.
However, the exercise was marred with series of complaints that trailed it.
During the several months of the exercise, there was no salaries and at the end, the exercise was marred with series of allegations of mistakes. Many veteran civil servants who were close to their retirement age were wrongly disqualified and many of them especially teachers were tagged uncleared while the larger percentage of them found themselves in omission list.
Despite the poor condition of living without salaries, the state capital became their regular routes, leaving their various locations to find a lasting solution to the problem. Unfortunately, many of those teachers could not be cleared before the expiration of the first tenure of Yahaya Bello.
They worked but without salaries every month, the qualified teachers who were wrongly screened out fought back and were cleared after the governor's inauguration for second term, the poor and victimized teachers have suffered more than enough with their families without salaries for several months, they were finally cleared but now facing another fight for them to get paid for what they've worked.
The kogi State chapter of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has vowed to continue fighting for its member until governor Yahaya Bello clears teachers who are still owed by the state government.
While speaking with newsmen, the chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Kogi Chapter, Comrade Ayodele Thomas, said Kogi NUT is not resting until Yahaya Bello's administration pay the cleared teachers who are yet to be paid by the state government.
The NUT chairman said the state government made a promise to pah the cleared teachers in March but failed to meet up with the promise, he added that they are expecting the government to live up to their promise and pay them by the end of April.
The NUT chairman who commended the patience of the teachers for holding for long without salaries further called on the government of Yahaya Bello to consider the plights of the teachers and pay them their salaries by the end of April.
How the Non Payment Of Teachers Salaries Started In Yahaya Bello's Administration
After Governor Yahaya Bello took over the mantle of leadership in January 2016, he kept to his promise on civil service reform and he immediately ordered the civil servants screening to weed off what he termed as ghost workers amongst other corrupt practices for the state to be able to pay genuine workers as and when due.
The Staff Verification and Screening Committee were then inaugurated on February 22, 2016.
However, the exercise was marred with series of complaints that trailed it.
During the several months of the exercise, there was no salaries and at the end, the exercise was marred with series of allegations of mistakes. Many veteran civil servants who were close to their retirement age were wrongly disqualified and many of them especially teachers were tagged uncleared while the larger percentage of them found themselves in omission list.
Despite the poor condition of living without salaries, the state capital became their regular routes, leaving their various locations to find a lasting solution to the problem. Unfortunately, many of those teachers could not be cleared before the expiration of the first tenure of Yahaya Bello.
They worked but without salaries every month, the qualified teachers who were wrongly screened out fought back and were cleared after the governor's inauguration for second term, the poor and victimized teachers have suffered more than enough with their families without salaries for several months, they were finally cleared but now facing another fight for them to get paid for what they've worked.
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