From Asile Emmanuel, Jos
The Nigerian Union of Teachers NUT Plateau state wing has appeal to the Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong to direct the recovered NN2.7 billion Naira into the payment of outstanding four months’ salaries of primary school teachers for the months of June to September 2012.
Addressing news men in Jos the Plateau state capital, the state chairman of the union, Comrade Gunshin Yarlings, also lament the refusal of the state government to appoint primary school teachers as education secretaries regretting that nomination of education secretaries were made from the secondary school sector, ministry and tertiary institutions.
Yarlings said: “NUT wish to state that the age-long relegation of primary school teachers to second class level will no longer be condoned, “for example no primary school teacher has ever been appointed as a principal.”
Comrade Gunshin added that the union frowned at the non-adherence to the law on first line charge in the payment of primary school teachers’ salary by the ministry for local government and chieftaincy affairs and the management committee chairmen of councils by reducing the allocation of funds for payment of salaries of teachers which is usually in shortfall.
The chairman further stressed that “the position of the union is that there will be peaceful protest by the teachers in the local government councils where primary school teachers are not appointed as education secretaries, in the event that the situation remains same, the union would be left with no option than embark on strike.”
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