Yuletide: Teachers Tackle Bayelsa Govt Over Unpaid Salary

The  Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), Bayelsa State Chapter, yesterday, staged a peaceful protest at the office of the Bayelsa State Post Primary Schools Board (PPSB) in Yenagoa over their unpaid November 2018 salary.
The teachers that turned up in their numbers for the protest lamented the fact that only teachers receive salaries two weeks after civil servants in other sectors have received salaries in the State.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after the protest, the Chairman of ASUSS in the State, Comrade Jerry Peletiri said that the protest was a result of the fact that “secondary schools teachers in the State are angry because they are hungry.”
The chairman alleged that the PPSB, Dr Blessing Ikuru, selectively implemented the promotion of some of her close allies and shut out a majority of the population of the teacher in the state from the promotion exercise.
Explaining further, Peletiri also alleged that the PPSB chairman is arbitrarily deducting monies from workers salaries monthly to enrich herself.
He said “actually we are angry because we are hungry. As a matter of fact, we are here because up till today we have not received our salary for November 2018. A worker is entitled to his wages.
“Our board led by Dr Ikuru, blatantly refused to pay us our salaries. But because we are agitating right now, they promised that our salaries would be paid by 10 am but this is 2 pm and we have not gotten alert.
“However, this is one out of the issues we are faced with. Another is that over the years, the board has looked at as nobodies. We have been promoted many months ago but up till now, the promotion implementation has not been done.