NUT Wants Benue To Pay Six Months Salary Arrears

The Nigeria Union of Teachers
(NUT) has called on the Benue State Government to immediately pay the six months’ salary arrears owed primary school teachers in the state.
The union made the appeal in a statement signed by Comrade Michael Olukoya and Comrade Obong Obong, President and Secretary General of the union, respectively.
The statement obtained from the NUT state office, recalled that primary school teachers in Benue State embarked on indefinite strike since October 2013 to press for the payment of their new minimum wage, stressing that since the strike began the government of Benue has not shown any concern.
NUT reminded the Benue State Governor Gabriel suswam that he was elected to better the lot of the citizenry and not to add to their problems.
The union said that non-payment of the arrears had made the children of the poor largely pupils of public primary schools to remain out of school for over six months.
According to the statement, the problem is capable of brining concomitant negative impact on the innocent pupils of the state in future.
The union condemned the abduction of over 100 girls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect.
The union said “the abduction of these innocent female students is inhuman, callous, uncivilized and anti-educational capable of dragging the country backward educationally”.

Philip Okaraji