Due to the hardships the reinstated workers have experienced, the Kaduna State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has requested the state government to fulfill their entitlements.
Comrade Ayuba Magaji Suleiman, the chair of the state congress, issued the demand in a press statement that was made available to Kaduna-based journalists.
Comrade Ayuba Suleiman also praised the government’s choice to reinstate the disengaged teachers and other staff members who were impacted by the hasty decision.
He bemoaned the fact that the people who had been restored were the victims of a severe and poorly planned action that had put many people’s lives in fairly bad socioeconomic circumstances and left the majority of them suffering from psychological trauma.
“In fact, the implication of the earlier action on the larger educational sector in the state is another unimaginable issue. Ask yourself, what do you think happened to the schools in rural areas where teachers were disengaged? What was the fate and what became of the educational aspirations of the students whose teachers were disengaged? Obviously, some of these schools had to be shut and some forced to operate in abysmal conditions given the shortage of teachers and other manpower; a situation that has further widened the gap towards achieving quality basic education” he said.
“To imagine that this had to linger for close to a year is something that is quite unthinkable, which undoubtedly is an indictment that calls to question the aptitude of the leadership of the board” he lamented.
” More so, those yet to be considered for reinstatement should be looked into”