Address our 15-point demands or face industrial action, NUT dares Okowa

The Delta State Wing Executive Council, SWEC of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT has warned Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa to address a 15-point demand affecting teachers in primary and secondary schools in Delta State or face industrial action, Fresh Angle International can authoritatively report.

In a communiqué issued at the end of a meeting of SWEC of NUT held Wednesday August 3, 2016 at Teachers’ House, Asaba, the teachers called on Governor Okowa to set the necessary machineries in motion to urgently address the challenges in the interest of industrial harmony, noting that failure to comply would mean that public primary and post primary schools in the state would not resume for the 2016/2017 academic session.

The communiqué signed by the Delta state NUT Chairman, Comrade Jemerieyigbe J.O, State Publicity Secretary, Comrade Okogba A.L and the Principal Assistant Secretary-General of the Union, Comrade Elder Joe Iyalekhue listed grievances of the teachers to include: Non-payment of primary school teachers’ salaries for three months under an alleged understanding between NULGE and NUT, non-promotion of all University graduate teachers in the primary school system beyond SGL 14 and above, non-implementation 2014 promotion arrears and 2015 promotion of secondary and primary school teachers, non-release of 2016 promotion of primary school teachers, unlawful collection of N8,000.00 screening fee from some secondary school teachers by PPEB/Hercabella Consulting Firm as well as the immediate restoration of all the teachers that were illegally removed from the payroll by the state government.

Fresh Angle International can report that the position of the teachers will send more tongues wagging in Delta State as to what the monthly federal allocations to local government councils in Delta State as shared during FAAC is being expended on, because local government workers in Delta State are being owed average nine months’ salaries, even as the Okowa administration continue to claim that monthly deduction for the payment of primary school staff across the state was responsible for the neglect of both the political and civil service class in the local government councils.  

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