Some secondary school teachers in Ekiti State on Thursday protested non-payment of their seven months salaries.
The teachers, numbering about 500, who were recruited in September 2018 at the tail end of former Governor Ayodele Fayose’s administration, appealed to Governor Kayode Fayemi to end their plights.
The embattled teachers, who spoke at Ikere Ekiti where they gathered for the protest, lamented that their efforts to get the attention of the government had not been successful, alleging that “no concrete step has been taken to either pay us or dialogue with us.”
“We went through interview and letters of employment were given to us. Not only that, we were deployed to various schools in the state to work. Up till today, there has been no correspondence with us by the present government. The governor should save us from psychological trauma by meeting with our representatives. Our people are having problems with their landlords in their areas of postings,” he said. Read more