In a telephone interaction with journalists in Makurdi on Tuesday, Levi Terna Akuma, the State Chairman of the NUT, highlighted that their promotions were done so legitimately by the previous administration. Continue reading
After the union's emergency State Executive Council meeting in Makurdi, Akuma issued a statement that was also signed by the acting secretary, Jeremiah Ochonu, urging Governor Hyacinth Alia to reinstate all teacher promotions that had been overturned and order the payment of their arrears within the allotted time.
Through a circular letter that was domesticated, assented to, and gazetted by the Benue State Government among others, the union complained about the delay in the release of the circular on tenure elongation of primary school teachers (40 years of service and 65 years of chronological age), as specified in the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria, Act 2022.
Additionally, it criticised the removal of 2,500 alleged ghost workers from the payroll and urged the state administration to make public the names of everyone who was struck off the payment vouchers for May and June 2023 in order to clarify the situation.
Bemgba Iortyom, the state's PDP publicity secretary, has meantime urged the governor to heed the warning and undo whatever actions he had made that were detrimental to the state's interests.