The Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, ASUSS, has expressed regret over the incessant killings, kidnappings and harassment of teachers and students across the country, saying these sordid scenarios were affecting teachers’ productivity adversely.
As terrible as the situations seem to be, ASUSS lauded the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, for employing 7,600 teachers, commending Kano and Adamawa, for legislating on extension of teachers’ retirement to 65 years.
The ASUSS’ Central Working Committee said this in a communique issued after its meeting in Kaduna and made available to newsmen by its National President, Comrade Samuel Omaji and its Secretary General, Comrade Sola Adigun.
The communique reads: “We appreciate the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, for the recruitment of 7,600 teachers into its 9,000 Secondary School Tutors. This is laudable as it is geared towards quality and functional education“.
“We commend the government of Kano State for redeploying 11,000 trained teachers in its MDAs to schools to boast teaching and learning. The commendation also goes to Oyo, Lagos and Delta States, for the up-to-date promotion of teachers”.
In spite of the above incentives to teaching and teachers, ASUSS seriously frowned at the insecurity across the country, particularly, incessant attacks on schools, leading to killing and kidnapping of teachers and students for ransom.
ASUSS also frowns at the recent harassment of teachers by students and parents; case studies were Plateau State, where a student stabbed a teacher to death and Ekiti State, where a parent who is a police officer, came to his child’s school with a team of three other policemen to harass the school principal and the teachers, while the police authority has refused to act on ASUSS’ complaints.
It added further that its members are remain committed to its objective of raising future leaders and shall continue to pursue it for meaningful and robust development of education in Nigeria.
ASUSS urged the National Assembly to expedite action on the bills to energise better welfare packages for teachers, saying dilly-dallying on the passage of the bills does not correlate with the position maintained by President Muhammadu Buhari.
ASUSS called on all other states that have allegedly denied teachers their privileges, rights and regular emoluments to do the right thing to alleviate the burdens and pains on them. Adenitan Akinola
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