NUT Calls For Immediate Payment Of Teachers’ Salary.
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has urged state governments owing teachers’ salaries to pay immediately, to avoid industrial action.
According to a statement signed by the NUT General Secretary, Mr Obong I.J. Obong, it warned such state governments to be alive to their responsibilities and stop toying with the future of the Nigerian child.
The statement especially urged the Kwara State Government to meet the demands of the teachers before the three-week ultimatum given to them by teachers expires.
It also listed Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Benue, Edo, Ekiti, Kwara, Nasarawa, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Taraba states as owing more than two months’ salary to teachers.
Also Bauchi, Delta, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Kebbi, Kogi, Niger, Plateau and Yobe are said to be owing January 2016 salary.
The statement advised government must desist from using teachers’ recruitment as means compensation to party loyalists. (NAN)
