Staffs at King’s College, Lagos pen down following non-payment of their
salaries which led to an indefinite strike they embark on.
A general notice pasted on the school gate reads: “Strike ongoing.
Academic activities grounded in King’s College; five months salaries unpaid.
Staff are dying.”
A teacher, Muhammed Isa, who spoke with The Nation, said pupils should have resumed on Sept 17 and 18 but
would not do so until the issue is resolved by the federal government.
He said the matter is the same at the Federal Government College,
Idoani in Ondo State.
Isa said: “The Federal Government has not paid our salaries for five
months now. We did not even allow the pupils to resume. Obviously, we have some
problems that have to be resolved. Our own children cannot go to school because
our salaries have not been paid.
"Also, we do not have the empowerment to come to work. It has to
do with money. You have to pay your transport from wherever you are to come to
school, we cannot trek. There are some of our staff who are sick and cannot pay
hospital bills. One of the staff came on Wednesday, in need of money to pay her
hospital bills and she could not get it. She died on Friday. So this has
informed us not to resume and we did not take the action without the approval
of our mother union, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria
(ASCSN).”
Mrs Binta Duguri, who teaches Government and Civic Education said: “The
non-payment of salary is really affecting us because our own children are at
home, because there is no money to pay their school fees. The ones that have
reached university cannot even resume. It is not fair that we should come and
be teaching other children for free.
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