We Owes Our 1,800 Teachers 8 months Salaries - Kano Governor

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state has confirmed that his government is owing 8 Months salaries to their teachers and majority of them were the over 1,800 Kano teachers, employed before the General election by for Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Kwankwaso employed and posted them to public schools across the 44 local government areas of the state in February and they worked for his party during the election.

Most of the teachers worked for several months as casual staff before the confirmation as permanent and pensionable employees early this year.
After eight months of working without salaries, the teachers complained that they were finding it difficult to get to their places of work every morning.

One of the affected teachers who requested that his identity be protected, told our reporter that the government likely withheld their salaries because it was planning to retrench some of them.

“If that rumour is not true, why don’t they pay us?” he said.
“Several promises have been made to us, that we are going to be paid soon, but nothing was paid to us. We are tired of hearing the empty promises. I can say the government is treating us with disdain,” he said.

Another teacher who also did not also want his name disclosed, said some of his colleagues had dumped the work because they had no means to continue going to the schools any longer.

“We staged a protest at the emir’s place sometime ago, so that the emir would intervene and yet nothing was done.”

 Hope For Nigeria.