Kogi teacher couldn’t raise N3,000 medical bill, dies (Shame on the governor – the blood of the teacher is on his hands)
Headlines, Kogi, State News Sunday, November 9th, 2014The Kogi State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Mallam Suleiman Abdullahi, on Sunday said a teacher recently died in the state because of his inability to raise N3,000 required for his medical bill as teachers in the state were being owed salaries and other entitlements.
He claimed that teachers in the state had been subjected to unbearable hardships.
He spoke when hundreds of teachers under the NUT, Kogi State chapter, engaged in a peaceful protest to the Attah Igala, Chief Micheal Oboni, over alleged poor conditions of service.
The teacher who chanted songs called on the monarch to assist them appeal to the state government to pay them their entitlements and outstanding salaries.
They decried the attendant hardship, claiming that it had recently led to the death of some teachers in the state.
Abdullahi who led the protesters lamented the alleged neglect of basic education in the state adding that the government allegedly no longer supplied teaching materials such as registers, scheme of work, chalk and biros as well as furniture to the schools.
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