‘Why we Didn’t Celebrate World Teachers Day’

Teachers inKogi State refused to celebrate this year Worlds’ Teacher Day as a protest over unpaid salaries and the hard ship facing workers in the state. World Teachers’ Day, also known as International Teachers Day, is held every year on October 5 to honour teachers andre cog ni se their contributions to education and development. Many events are organised on this day to emphasise the importance of teachers and learning and to raise the profile and increase the awareness and understanding of the teaching profession and its importance. Addressing journalists yesterday, the Kogi State Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Secondary School( AS USS ), Comrade Ron ti Mathew O jo, said teachers were hungry, and de moral is ed with the current situation on ground. Comrade O jo who doubles as theKogi State Chairman Trade Union Con gr ess(TUC) noted that, teachers in the state now found it difficult to feed their families daily as they were owned between six and 20 months salaries .“If you ask the teacher to come to Lokoja from all the 21 local government area from their various schools, they can’t even afford it because salaries have not been paid.That is why the economy does not permit to organise any meeting or celebrate the 2018 World Teachers day. I will use this opportunity to appreciate teachers in the state that despite all these hard ship, they are still doing their jobs. Government and employers of teachers in the state should give us transport allowance to maintain our body and souls and be able to transport our self to heaven so that we could meet our reward there since they say teachers reward is in heaven and not earth.