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Agony as Kogi school teachers receive 20 percent March salary
Primary School
teachers in Kogi State have been paid yet another 20 percent salary by the
state government, through the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
We gathered
that the payment of the March salary came on the heels of reports on the
plights of the teachers, and their counterparts at the local government level.
Recall that while
the teachers cried out over nonpayment of salaries at the eve of Sallah
celebration, the local government workers who got 25 and 30 percent rejected
theirs.
Perhaps, their cry
got the response of the government, hence the swift payment of another 20
percent as confirmed by one of the teachers.
“Our bank gave us
the opportunity to collect Payday loan before our salary arrives, and I took
twenty thousand naira hoping that there would be an improvement, even if it’s 5
percent increase. Yesterday, I got my salary alert in kobo because the bank
took their money immediately it entered.
“We are suffering.
Majority of us are now hypertensive, yet we cannot even see anything to cover
for medication and food. Until God returns smiles on our faces, I am beginning to
believe that God decided to punish us for letting us suffer this way,” one of
the teachers lamented.
The Kogi State
chairman Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Comrade Thomas Ayodele on Saturday
confirmed this to newsmen on Saturday.
Comrade Ayodele
noted that, “there is slow pace of remittance of local government teacher’s
salary to the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
“As we speak, only
six out of the 21 Local Government teachers have started receiving percentage
salary. We equally frowned at this percentage salary as our primary school
teachers have continued to face untold hardship in the state”.
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