Giving this indication was the Special Adviser to the Governor on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Solomon Wombo, who described the figure of primary school teachers in the state as outrageous, particularly as the state government said that the staff audit was a necessary step to authenticate the total number of teachers in the state’s primary schools if they were to benefit from the new minimum wage.
The SUBEB, according to the special adviser, had submitted 26,472 as total number of primary school teachers in their payroll, but the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), led by Comrade Angan Godwin, said he could only attest to 21,000 as his members.
Primary school teachers in the state have been on strike because of the controversy over the new minimum wage, like their co-workers in the local government areas.
The special adviser said that the delay in the implementation of the new minimum wage to primary school teachers was as a result of heavy wage bill, which, he said, stood at over N2 billion monthly for 26,472 as claimed by SUBEB.
Wombo, who appealed to the teachers to call off the strike for the verification, said that “the figure has to be authenticated so as to know the actual number of teachers in the state’s primary school.”
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