The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), has threatened to shut down the Kings College, Lagos and the Federal Government College, Idoani, Ondo State, over government’s failure to pay the outstanding salary of education officers since May.
The secretary general of ASCSN, Alade Bashir Lawal, said in a statement that education officers in the schools would not resume classes on Thursday, September15, unless the salary owed them since May was paid by Wednesday, September14
The scribe said “It seems that the decision not to pay salaries to education officers in these schools since May, is an experiment which will be extended to other schools in due course if there is no resistance from the workers and their Trade Unions as the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Budget Office of the Federation, have continued to shift blames on the matter.”
The ASCSN scribe stressed that the other 102 federal unity colleges had been mobilised to join the strike if the Federal Government still refused to pay education officers in the two schools their salaries.
“The salaries of civil servants were meager and could not take them to the bus stop let alone take them home when paid regularly. Now that the salaries could not be paid at all, it had been a tale of hardship for the education officers, some of whom could no longer afford to buy medication to treat themselves after going to the hospitals and getting prescriptions.
“It is, indeed, sad that the Federal Government has decided to subject these workers and their families to untold hardship, whereas, the welfare of the citizens is the main reason why governments exist in the first instance.”
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