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Nigeria: Teachers' Strike Latest - We Are Asking for Additional N90 Million - NUT
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Vanguard (Lagos)
13 July 2008
Posted to the web 14 July 2008
Lagos
THE chairman of Imo State wing of Nigeria Union Teachers (NUT), Chief Josiah Eze, says the proposed Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) will only amount to an additional N90 million to the current wage bill of N380 million when implemented in the state.
Chief Eze, who disclosed this in Owerri Imo State while fielding questions from journalists, also explained that what the teachers are asking for is just 28 percent salary increment.
It was his considered opinion that with the increasing level of internally generated revenue (IGR) and the high profile allocation coming into the state from the federation account, the state would not find it difficult to pay the new wage regime.
The state's IGR is very healthy. Receipts from the federation account to the state have been on the high side. With receipts from the two sources, the total wage bill of teachers would be insignificant to the state government, Eze reasoned.
Answering a question, the Imo NUT boss took a swipe at the Minister of Education, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu, for saying that only Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa-Ibom states would be in a position to pay the enhanced salary structure to teachers on their pay roll.
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"Teachers were the first in 1991 to ask for a professional salary structure in the country. It is however regrettable that instead of recognizing the legitimate demand, the Federal Government decided to leave them out and readily implemented that of the police, Nigerian Medical Association and others," Eze lamented.
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