It is disheartening to work and end up not been paid. A number of teachers who were recruited into service last year, with some commencing duty in March and it preceding months have not been paid till now. As we wonder about it now, they neither know their status in the work they are doing nor the status of their salary. Hence the question, Is the salary delayed or denied?
With this situation, do officials at the various positions in the Metropolitans, municipals, districts and regions offices of education know of this menace and have not spoken about it or do not know?
What would be their action if a teacher posted to location does not perform the duties expected of him or her? Your guess is as good as mine. District and municipal directors in their various jurisdiction seem not to care about the problem of these hardworking ladies and gentlemen who have fallen victims to this problem. If a team of inspectors are to go round for inspection in the schools within their jurisdiction and find out a teacher is not at post, the person’s reason for being absent may not matter to them but making the person serve a punishment for the offense may matter most. Forgetting that, With an empty stomach, an individual cannot live up to the bill in a given task.‘ Municipal and District Directors of Education, wake up to the cry of your subordinate because most of them have not been paid for over a year.
Teacher unions within the country, do not sit down for a recruited teacher to start receiving salary before to start showing concern to his or her worries. Your concern for teachers must commence the very moment he or she is recruited into service as a teacher. Let these newly recruited teachers who are victims to this menace know that you would be there for them at any moment not only when the teacher starts paying little amount as dues to your union before you show you concern. Let them know you are there for them. Help them fight for their right and what is due them. Do not let them struggle in silence. Because, a hungry man is an angry man.
An interview with a handful of these victims who have their salaries not paid concludes that no one is able to let them know the true state of their salaries and the reason(s) for which it has been delayed. Meanwhile these recruits are always at their post serving their hearts out.
Most of them are with the hopes of receiving the monies at the end of this month, February. Will they have them or will be denied again? Only tomorrow has the answer to this question.
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