The Plateau State Chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has appealed to Governor Simon Lalong to urgently convert the recovered N2.7 billion meant for the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) into the payment of outstanding four months’ salaries of primary school teachers in the State.
It would be recalled that Governor Lalong recently declared that the State Government had recovered N2.7 billion which was alleged to have been diverted by the immediate past administration, from the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
The Union made the appeal yesterday, in Jos, through its State Chairman, Comrade Gunshin Yarlings, saying they are been owed four months salaries dating back to June to September 2012.
Yarlings lamented 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, the ministry of education and tertiary institutions.
“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,” he lamented further.
The Chairman further stated that, as a Union, it frowns 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 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,” he stressed.
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