Nigeria Labour Congress’ ( NLC ) Borno State Chapter says the state government never sacked 6,000 workers; rather it suspended their salaries following a committee’s recommendations.
State NLC chairman, Comrade Bulama Abiso, disclosed this on Sunday.
He said contrary to insinuation of the sack, the state government only set up a committee for the verification of teachers at the local government level.
Abiso said no teacher has been sacked since none of them have been issued with sack letters.
Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum had recently set up a Teachers’ Verification Committee to verify teachers in the payroll of local government councils, which discovered that over 6000 were ghost teachers.
The NLC Chairman said the affected teachers were not sacked, but their salaries were stopped.
“The governor has directed the committee that did the work to review the position to ensure that justice is done to everyone that appears before it,” Abiso said.
“Currently, the committee has started working and they have started looking into the issue. Already, Askira- Uba , Bama and Abadam local government teachers have already appeared before the committee and the issues have been looked into.
“If a civil servant should be sacked, he should be sacked with a reason and with a letter stating the reason. For now, nobody has been sacked and if the Committee finds out that their implementation was in error, salary arrears of the affected teachers will be cleared,” Abiso said. End
