Teachers Decry Exclusion From Bailout Funds For Salaries

                                

                                     

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has expressed outrage over what it described as the  systematic exclusion of  members in the payment of salaries from the 2015 federal government bailout funds given to state governments.

A statement  made available to a reputable print media  in Abuja, by the national leadership of the union, signed by the secretary general, Obong I.J.Obong, said it rejects the segregational treatment meted out to teachers by some governors in favour of other workers in their various states.

The union said it would not stand aloof and watch the continuous maltreatment and gross insensitivity towards teachers’ plights by some state governments

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The union recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari, upon assumption of office, offered bailout funds to state governments to enable them offset backlog of salaries arrears owed workers.

Part of the statement read, “It is equally on record that teachers were the most affected having been owed months of salaries. Therefore it is unacceptable and highly callous for state governments not to place teachers on priority list at the commencement of salary payment from the federal government bailout funds.”