About 17,000 primary school teachers and staff of the Local Education Authorities (LEAs) across the six area councils of the FCT are to be screened by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) for 12 days before the commencement of the implementation of the new minimum wage.
The Chairman of the FCT wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Stephen Knabayi, who disclosed this to newsmen at the Teachers House in Gwagwalada on Monday, said the screening exercise would commence on Wednesday, February 10 and end on February 23, 2021.
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Com Knabayi said a 75-member committee inaugurated last Thursday by the FCT permanent secretary, comprising members from the NUT, the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and the FCTA was to conduct the screening.
He said, “With the way they have streamlined the screening process; that it is going to be done zone by zone, we are optimistic that the exercise shall be completed within the stipulated time.”
The NUT chairman disclosed that arrangements had been made to provide security for the committee members, especially those that would be going to rural schools and therefore called on the teachers and staff of the LEAs to cooperate with the members of the committee.
