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Nigeria: Gov Babangida Says No to TSS
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Vanguard (Lagos)
17 July 2008
Posted to the web 17 July 2008
GOVERNOR Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has described the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) being demanded by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) as unrealizable and impracticable and cannot therefore be implemented in his state.
The governor who made this declaration while speaking at a one day intensive stakeholders consultative Forum on State Educational Sector Plan/State Education Operational Plan said it is unrealistic in a democracy setting as we are now for somebody or group of people to stay in Abuja or Lagos to Organise a strike and say Niger State must implement
He however made it clear that the State Government may be left with no option than to disengage about 15,000 teachers who he described as not qualified to enjoy the TSS being agitated by the Union.
Dr. Aliyu pointed out that in the State, out of the 22,000 Primary School Teachers on its pay roll, only 7,000 are qualified going by the TSS demand while the remaining 15,000 are not qualified saying, "so if we have to strictly go by the demand of NUT, it means we may have to dismiss the 15,000 who are not qualified".
He reminded the unionists to see their roles as not only to order for strikes alone but to protect the job of their followers pointing out that, "treble unions should know that their primary responsibilities is the protection of the job of their members because without them, they cannot have the Union".
The governor remarked that even without any threat, his administration has increased Teachers Salary and that the Government is still willing to negotiate on what can be done to improve their welfare but added,
"I am not going to be intimidated or threatened to do anything under duress; if they want to negotiate, let them go back to the Classrooms and then discuss"
On the threat by the Union to force Private Schools to join in the strike, Dr. Aliyu sounded a warning saying, "nobody in Democratic setting has the right to intimidate other people; if the Private Schools don"t want to go on strike, nobody can force them and we will see it as lawlessness if anybody or group tries to force anybody to go on strike in the state"
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The governor then appended to Teachers in the State to go back to Classrooms and Commence negotiation with government in the interest of the Parents and the Pupils.
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