Primary school teachers in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Monday sent away pupils who resumed after the COVID-19 lockdown.
The pupils had resumed classes following the announcement by the FCT Administration that schools would reopen on October 12.
But Punch newspaper reports that the teachers refused to allow the pupils to enter the classrooms due to the failure of the area councils to pay the new minimum wage and salary arrears.
In a letter dated October 7, the FCT council of the Nigerian Union of Teachers had notified the FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Bello, of its decision to embark on strike.
Teachers at LEA Primary School Kubwa, did not allow the pupils to enter the classrooms. The same situation was observed at LEA Primary School, Area 10, Garki and in Kuje and many other primary schools in various locations across the FCT.
However, the junior secondary school students were seen taking lessons as secondary school teachers had been paid the minimum wage by the FCT Administration.
The NUT Chairman, Stephen Knabayi, said the industrial action was indefinite “since there is no serious commitment from the councils to implement the national minimum wage.”
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He said, “For a period of 18 months now, we have been agitating for the payment and there has not been any serious commitment on the part of government, that is, the area councils.”
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