MINNA -The Niger House of Assembly’s Committee on Labour and Productivity has commended the maturity and peaceful steps taken by officials of the state’s Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT).
Isa Kawu, the chairman of the committee, on Tuesday in Minna commended officials of the union for informing the committee on its plan to embark on strike.
The strike had been called over the state government’s failure to honour an earlier agreement on infrastructure in public schools and the minimum wage for teaching staff.
Kawu told the union officials that the state could not afford another round of strike after the recent nationwide strike “with its attendant effect on the socio-economic life of the state’’.
He appealed to the officials to suspend the strike to allow the House to prevail on the appropriate authorities to take the necessary steps resolve the issue.
Earlier, the state chairman of the NUT, Malam Adamu Tanko, said the state government had failed to implement the agreement reach between it and the union earlier.
“This agreement is especially the one on the deteriorating infrastructure in public schools and the implementation of the new minimum wage,’’ he said.
The chairman then expressed his union’s appreciation of the timely intervention of the committee.
He added that the teachers had decided to extend the strike’s commencement date by a week so as to give the committee ample time to consult with other stakeholders.
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