Delta State NUT marches to Government House, House of Assembly

NUT Delta state,which comprise of teachers in Delta state where at the Government House as well as the state House of Assembly where they urged the state government to take over the payment of primary school teachers.

Chairman of NUT in the state, Mr Jonathan Jemirieyigbe, who led the rally decried that primary school teachers in some States including Delta were being owed salaries.

That the development would not only affect the survival of primary school teachers,it portend great danger for the future of unprivileged children in the country.

That they were not against the autonomy of local government, he said that they may  scrap the State Joint Local Government Account which according to him, may take primary education back to the dark pre-1994 era.

They were addressed by Mr.Chiedu Ebie,the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education who insisted that the payment of primary school teachers salaries was the responsibility of the local government, based on the constitutional mandate of the different tiers of government.

He also said that the management of primary and secondary education has been the function of the state government, adding that the state government has been augmenting salaries of primary school teachers even when it was not its duty to do so. He said that government has not failed to pay the state workers salaries because it was its statutory role, adding that any insinuation that government was owing primary school teachers was not correct
The march was led by the Sate chairmea, NUT, Mr Jonathan Jemirieyigbe