The opposition PDP in Nasarawa state has charged the leadership of the organized labour unions to reject further impunity and rascality of Gov Abdullahi Sule.
In a press statement issued in Lafia and signed by the Press Secretary of the PDP, Nasarawa state, Hon Jonathan Ipaa, the party had charged the state workers to halt the denial of salaries of about One Thousand Five Hundred teachers engaged in August, 2024 by the Nasarawa state Teachers Service Commission, TSC on the orders of Governor Sule.
Recall that Governor Sule had instructed the chairman of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to recruit 2,500 teachers in the state’s primary and secondary schools.
“These teachers are amongst those the APC government is frustrating by starving them to hunger after work done”.
However, after a sustained pressure from the opposition PDP backed with labour’s strike actions that grounded the state workforce for weeks, the state government reluctantly commenced the implementation of the #70,500 minimum wage though without some of the teachers.
“Gov Sule appears to be enjoying recklessly with state policies even when they affect the overall welfare of citizens especially state workers who are the engine room of development.”
“We heard him denying that he instructed the chairman to recruit only 1,000 teachers. But where was he when these teachers were interviewed, examined and hired?
Who gave the final approval?”
Gov Sule should explain what are the parameters he now used in selecting jthe favoured 1,000 teachers he paid which left bulk of 1,500 without entitlement after teaching for four months?”
With the current hardship, these poor teachers were interviewed, hired, trained and posted across the 13 local government area within the state since August.
We challenge the organized labour unions to halt this impunity and rascality once and for all.
