Lagos NUT Wants State Government To Restore Withheld Allowances

The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT),
Lagos State Chapter, has appealed to the state government to restore
all allowances paid by the previous administrations in the state.

Making the appeal, the state NUT
Chairman, Mr Segun Raheem, who was speaking against the backdrop of some
challenges facing teachers in the state, said that government has not
done anything specific for teachers.

Otherwise, it has been a situation of allowances being enjoyed before that are being cut off.

Such allowances are; the sport
allowances for the physical and health education teachers due to the
rigorous work they are subjected to, the duty post allowances for head
teachers to run their schools, rural/river-line allowances for those who
teach in such areas, mathematics and science allowances, among others.

Raheem said government was making effort
to discourage teachers by refusing to pay the outstanding 11.3 per cent
of the Teachers Scheme Allowance (TSA).

He alleged that the payment of theses
allowances was long overdue, saying that various appeals had been made
to the government and all these had proved abortive.

Raheem said that the teachers in the
state public schools were being over burdened as there had not been
employment of teachers in the state for 12-years. (NAN)