Obiano at war with Anambra teachers as NUT rejects compulsory computer purchase in Anambra

www.odogwublog.com reports that the romance between the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) Anambra state chapter with Governor Willie Obiano led administration may be ending as they are spoiling for war over compulsory computer purchase handed down to the teachers by the state.
But the Anambra State teachers have rejected the compulsory Information Technology package planned for them by the state government.
The State Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Ms Nnenna Okonkwo, told our correspondent in Awka on Tuesday.
She said the union had written to the state Commissioner for Education, Professor Kate Omenugha, to explain to her that the conditions given to the teachers for the computer purchase were unconscionable and unacceptable.
She said one of the conditions given to them by the state government for the training was for them to obtain the computers from government for N90,000 each.
She said, “Such conditions are not acceptable to us and we have made our position known to government.
“We have asked them to reduce the price of the computer to N50,000 each, and that teachers who will be due for retirement in the next 18 months should not be compelled to buy the computers.
“We say this because government had compelled us to sign consent forms, compelling teachers in the state to buy the computers from them, only for the commissioner to withdraw from that stand last week.
“How can somebody compel teachers to buy the computers at such a high cost? Some of the teachers have their own computers and somebody still wants them to buy another one; it is callous and we have rejected the plan”, Okonkwo said.
The state government had last week decreed that from January 2016, teachers in the state who are not computer- literate would no longer be promoted.
The state commissioner for education made this known in a press conference in her office in Awka.