Kogi teachers decry percentage salary payments

Primary school teachers in Kogi State under the auspices of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) have decried salary underpayments, salaries omissions and payments of salaries in percentages since the local councils took over teachers’ payments. NUT state chairman, Comrade Thomas Ayodele , who spoke on Thursday  at its 2018 solemn assembly, lamented that its […]

Primary school teachers in Kogi State under the auspices of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) have decried salary underpayments, salaries omissions and payments of salaries in percentages since the local councils took over teachers’ payments.

NUT state chairman, Comrade Thomas Ayodele , who spoke on Thursday  at its 2018 solemn assembly, lamented that its members only got 30 and 20 percents of their salaries for the months of January and February, 2018 respectively while some were omitted.

Ayodele who described the development as worrisome, called on the government to pay all salary arrears owed teachers without further delay and return the payments of teachers’ salaries to the State Universal Basic Education Board (SIBEB).

The union maintained that the earlier directive of Governor Yahaya Bello that salaries of teachers should be deducted from the Joint Account Allocation Committe (JAAC) as first line charge should be adhered to by the Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the interest of industrial harmony in the education sector.

Members of the union use the occasion of the solemn assembly to pray for quick recovery of Governor Yahaya Bello and divine intervention for the challenges bedevilling the teachers as it regards unpaid salaries.