Ogun Teachers call off strike

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Ogun State chapter, on Tuesday, called off its 10-day old strike.

The decision was announced after a meeting between the leadership of the union and representatives of the state government.

Chairman of NUT in the state, Dare Ilekoya, and his counterpart in the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools in Nigeria, Akeem Lasisi, addressed a joint press briefing after a congress of the two bodies held at the NUT Hall, Abeokuta.

According to them, “We are here today to tell the public that government decided to call us for discussions. We met and all our issues were looked into”.

Ilekoya said government had agreed to pay the October deductions with immediate effect, while outstanding would be paid later.

Similarly, government agreed to set up a committee that would involve all parties to review other outstanding issues.

“On this note, we, hereby, announce the suspension of the industrial action embarked upon by teachers in the state”, the NUT boss said.

Lasisi, on his part, appealed to members to comply with the union’s directive to resume work while stressing that the strike was not politically motivated.

According to him, the action was “a pure legitimate fight” over their rights and welfare, stressing that their action should not be politicised.

He assured that their sacked colleagues would be reinstated in response to their demands.

Teachers in the state embarked on the strike over non-remittance of their cooperative and other deductions, compulsory retirement of some teachers and payment of 12.5 per cent balance of teaching peculiar alliance.

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