NUT to teachers: No illegal deductions of salary in Kwara
The Kwara State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has absolved the state government of complicity in the deductions from teachers’ salary under the State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) for the month of September, 2022. NUT made the clarification in a statement jointly signed by the state Chairman, Comrade Oyewo Bashiru, and Secretary, […]
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The Kwara State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has absolved the state government of complicity in the deductions from teachers’ salary under the State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) for the month of September, 2022.
NUT made the clarification in a statement jointly signed by the state Chairman, Comrade Oyewo Bashiru, and Secretary, Moni Mike Modesty, following complaints by some teachers of “illegal deductions” as “check-off dues” in September by the state government.
The statement reads in part: “There have also been negative insinuations and statements aimed at disparaging the government and the union over the alleged deductions now being circulated.
“But the said check-off dues deduction was in line with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment’s approved NUT constitution amendments in 2014, wherein the monthly payable check-off dues by members were increased from two to three per cent of members’ monthly basic/consolidated salary.
“This has been implemented across the federation and in the FCT since 2014 except in Kwara State, which had been maintaining a 1.39 percentage deduction that was at variance with the law, but unknown to the state government.”
“The directive to effect and comply with the new approved rate which has been in existence since 2014 was given by the headquarters of the NUT, which mandated the state leadership to liaise with the state government to ensure that what is due to the union is correctly deducted.
“The follow-up action to the directive of the NUT national headquarters led to the state government’s correction of the age-long anomaly in the September 2022 payrolls of teachers under TESCOM, which will eventually cascade to teachers under the employment of SUBEB.”