By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
As teachers join other workers to celebrate International Workers Day on Monday, May 1, 2023, the Osun State wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has called on the state government to put in place necessary arrangements for the recruitment of more teaching staff members in public primary and secondary schools in the state.
This was made known in the May Day congratulatory message issued and made available to journalists in Osogbo on Sunday to congratulate teachers in the state by the Union’s State Chairman, Comrade Fatade Muritala Olatoke and the state Secretary, Com. Adeojo Julius Akinlabi.
According to the message, the call for recruitment became necessary to bolster effective teaching and learning delivery.
The Osun NUT in the message also appealed to the state government for reinstatement of the 1,500 primary and secondary school teachers that were employed by the immediate past Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s government.
The message said the affected teachers were professionally qualified to take up the job after undergoing rigorous screening in which Osun NUT was involved adequately.
The Osun NUT Chairman and Secretary in the message, commended the incumbent governor of the state, Senator Nurudeen Jackson Ademola Adeleke for his unalloyed support to the teachers and entire workers in the state, saying “since Governor Adeleke’s emergence in office, he has been workers friendly.”
The Union said, aside of their requests from the state government towards recruitment of young and qualified teachers to fill the existing vacancies in the schools across the state, the Gov Adeleke-led administration should attend to the payment of rural allowances to teachers in rural areas of the state to serve as motivational pill that will enable them remain at their work
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“Payment of grants to school head (Principal and Head Teachers) as well as retention of the positions of Tutor-General / Permanent Secretary, Head Teachers, Headmaster-General / Permanent Secretary exclusively for teachers among others.
“If teachers properly remunerated and promptly paid, they would be motivated to give their best toward nation building.
“That is why we are appealing to our amiable Governor Adeleke to ensure that teachers are well remunerated so as to enable them to offer quality and effective services.
“The only way to encourage the entire teachers and improve their status was by ensuring that no teacher is owed salary for the work they have done well while government should also give special treatment to them in order to make the profession more attractive” the Osun NUT bosses added.
The Osun NUT, however, enjoined teachers in the state to remain productive, dedicated, and committed in carrying out their duties.
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