The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike over salary arrears owned its members by some state governors.
The union also said it would embark on strike if situation of infrastructures in public schools failed to improve.
NUT National President, Michael Olukoya, disclosed this at the solemn assembly organized by the union in Abuja.
He said the union had already directed its state chairmen to take stock of states owing salaries and also monitor the level of infrastructural development in public schools.
Olukoya said the union would take action after the state chairmen present their situation report.
He said: โWe shall embark on strike on two things and on two occasions. When we get result on salary if it is not encouraging we embark on strike. The next thing is the state of decay in our schools โ non- functioning laboratories and non-existing libraries. I think it is a mark of national responsibility to equally go on strike.
โWe want to get situation report from across the states. We have sent our states (chairmen) to go and talk on these two issues, report back and if what we get is not encouraging we will embark on strike.โ
He expressed displeasure over continued non-payment of salaries and allowances of primary and secondary school teachers in several states across the country.
Olukoya gave the name of states owing salary arrears to include Abia, Bayelsa, Benue, Ekiti, Kwara, Ondo, Taraba, Delta, Kaduna, Osun, Nasarawa, Oyo and Kogi.
โThe leadership of the NUT wishes to again express our displeasure over continued non-payment of salaries and allowances of primary and secondary school teachers in several states across the country.
โDespite our earlier call on all defaulting states to pay up the backlogs of salaries and allowances owed teachers to galvanize effective academic activities in our schools.
โOur appeal to all these states is that they should pay or begin to see the wrath of the Nigerian teachers. We call on the affected state governments to clear the salary arrears and ensure regular payment of the salaries of teachers without further delay,โ the NUT president added.
