NUT strike paralyses academic activities in Abuja
October 25, 2013 by Agency Reporter
Academic activities in government-owned primary and secondary schools in Gwagwalada were on Thursday paralysed, following an indefinite strike embarked upon by the Nigeria Union of Teachers in the Federal Capital Territory.
The NUT embarked on the strike after the FCT Minister, Alhaji Bala Mohammed, ordered that the salaries of some teachers be suspended.
The order was given due to the inability of the affected teachers to produce their original certificates during a screening exercise conducted by the FCT Education Board.
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that all the government-owned secondary and primary schools in the area were locked up and pupils were sent home by guards stationed at the entrance of the schools.
Efforts to speak with Mrs Sylvia Inyan, the principal, Government Day Secondary School in Gwagwalada proved abortive as she refused to make any comment.
However some of the teachers who were seen around the school said they came to do their private businesses.
Most of the students who spoke with NAN said that they were not aware of the cause of the strike.
Master Amed Danlami of the school said that he was asked to return home immediately on arrival at school in the morning without explanation.
“I arrived the school this morning and saw my fellow students outside the gate. I was told to go back home. Neither the guards nor the teachers we saw outside the gate explained anything to us,’’ he said.
source-the punch
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