Strike: We’re not shifting ground until teachers are paid – NUT chair

The Chairman of the FCT wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Comrade Stephen Knabayi, has said the union would not shift ground on its ongoing strike action until primary school teachers were paid their new minimum wage.

Knabayi, while speaking with newsmen in Gwagwalada yesterday, said the union expected that the minimum wage would be paid along with the October salary for the teachers but that nothing has been done.

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He said despite the fact that the FCT administration had the financial capacity to pay teachers the new minimum wage, it had failed to do so.

According to him, the union had held several meetings with the Minister of State for FCT, Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, the six area council chairmen and other stakeholders, but the authorities were yet to concede to their demand.

“The minister at one of the meetings set-up a committee which the union is part of, but as I speak, no tangible result has come out of it. And as a union, we are not shifting ground until the new minimum of the primary school teachers is paid,” he said.

It would be recalled that primary school teachers across the FCT embarked on indefinite strike action three weeks ago, over non-payment of the new minimum wage.