www.odogwublog.com
reports that in a bid to express their heart displeasure over five months
unpaid salary arrears, public Primary and Secondary school teachers in the
commercial nerve centre of Aba, Abia State have embarked on an indefinite
strike.
Rising from its meeting held yesterday, separately at
Abayi Primary School and Boys Technical College, BTC, all in the commercial
city, the National Union Of Teachers, NUT, Abia State chapter insisted on
embarking on an indefinite strike following the inability of the Governor
Okezie Ikpeazu led administration to pay the teachers.
Speaking in Aba one of the affected
teachers who do not want her name in print told our Correspondent that the
inability of the state government to clear the salary backlog owed teachers is
really affecting the education system in the State.
According to her the government is owing primary
school teachers (January to April, 2018), while the secondary school teachers
are being owed five months ( Dec 2017 to April 2018).
She had therefore called on the state government to do
the needful by clearing the remaining salary backlogs to enable the teachers,
students and pupils return to their various schools across the state.
When www.odogwublog.com in Aba visited some schools in the
city all the government owned primary and secondary schools were under lock and
keys while efforts made to reach the state chairman of the NUT could not yield
any results.
However, contacted the state Commissioner for
Information John Okiyi Kalu said in Aba that the state government
will be meeting with the NUT yesterday (Wednesday) and will get back to us
after the meeting.
Public Schools in Aba shut down over unpaid salaries
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Friday, May 04, 2018
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