Non-Payment Of 4 Months Salary: Kogi State Teachers Protest

The Kogi State teachers has protested what they described as negligence on the part of the state government as they are being owed four months salaries.

The protest was held by the Basic Education Staff Association of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lokoja as the teachers sang war songs and carried placards with different inscriptions deploring their ordeals, and calling on the government to address their grievances.

The chairman of BESAN, Mr. Adomu Sule, said the protest was also to express their grievances against the government’s neglect of teachers' welfare, particularly the non-implementation of the minimum wage promised the teachers in 2013.

He said some of the protesting teachers were being owed four months salaries, while others had been paid any salary at since January 2014.

He said the protest was a way of intimating the governor, Capt Idris Wada of their plight.

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