The Federal government has vowed to settle the 36-month salary arrears that is owed to some Unity College teachers.
Prof. Tahir Mamman the Minister of Education, made this statement during the Mastercard Foundation’s three-day EdTech Conference in Abuja yesterday.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), 1,800 teachers different unity colleges have been owed salary and other allowances for the past three years.
Prof. Tahir Mamman stated that the files of the affected teachers are already with the Ministry of Finance.
“The issue of teachers’ salary is already with the Budget Office and Ministry of Finance. So hopefully, they will be paid,” he said.
“I can’t tell exactly when their money will be paid. We don’t pay in the Ministry of Education. But we have done the paper work. It is already in finance. Hopefully, very soon, they will get their money,” he added.
The Federal Ministry of Education hired these teachers as education officers in 2018, 2019, and 2020 and appointed them to schools across the nation.
However, they have not been paid due to logistic problems at the ministry’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) desk.
Other reasons provided for the non-payment includes the ministry’s failure to transmit their files to the Budget Office for vetting and subsequent transfer to the Accountant-General’s office for approval.
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