The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Benue State has vowed to strike if the state government does not comply with its demands, which include having all outstanding consolidated enhanced allowances deducted from their paychecks in May and June 2023 and restoring promotions.
In a telephone chat with journalists in Makurdi on Tuesday, Levi Terna Akuma, the State Chairman of the NUT, emphasized that their promotions were done so legitimately by the previous administration.
After the union’s emergency State Executive Council meeting in Makurdi, Akuma issued a statement that was also signed by the acting secretary, Jeremiah Ochonu, urging Governor Hyacinth Alia to reinstate all teacher promotions that had been overturned and order the payment of their arrears within the allotted time.
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The union contended the delay in the release of the circular on tenure elongation of primary school teachers (40 years of service and 65 years of chronological age) as spelt in the Harmonized Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria, Act 2022 through a circular letter which was domesticated, assented and gazetted by the Benue State Government among others.
It also faulted the removal of alleged 2,500 ghost workers from payroll and urged the state government to release the names of all those removed from the payment vouchers of May and June 2023 for clarity.
Meanwhile, the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Publicity Secretary, Bemgba Iortyom, has called on the governor to heed the ultimatum and reverse all the decisions he had taken against the interest of the state.
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