Adamawa ex-teachers protest 29 months unpaid salaries

Scores of erstwhile teachers successful Adamawa State connected Thursday protested astatine the Government House, demanding the outgo of 29 months’ unpaid salaries.

The demonstrators, who were antecedently employed by the Adamawa State Post-Primary Schools Management Board (ASPMB), staged a peaceful march, expressing choler implicit what they described arsenic years of neglect contempt tribunal judgements.

Waving placards bearing assorted messages and slogans, the protesters accused the authorities authorities of ignoring ineligible rulings that ordered the colony of their entitlements.

The members of the group, said to fig astatine slightest 674, were primitively recruited during the medication of erstwhile politician Murtala Nyako but were aboriginal disengaged by Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, who maintained that their employment process was flawed. The affected teachers, however, person repeatedly dismissed this claim, insisting their dismissal was unjust.

Addressing journalists during the protest, the spokesperson for the group, Ismail Bello, described the hard conditions galore of the teachers person endured since their dismissal.

He explained that the protestation became indispensable aft the authorities authorities allegedly failed to comply with judgments delivered by some the National Industrial Court and the Court of Appeal, which directed that the workers beryllium paid.