Strike: Public schools in Abuja shut down as NLC ensures compliance

Public schools successful the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) person been unopen down successful compliance with the nationwide onslaught by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and affiliate unions.

The compliance team, led by the Chairperson of the NLC FCT Chapter, Dr. Stephen Knabayi, visited authorities establishments, schools, banks, and different nationalist facilities to show adherence.

Our analogous observed that portion determination was full compliance successful nationalist schools successful the nation’s capital, world activities continued successful backstage schools.

Some of the backstage schools operating successful Lugbe, Abuja, see King’s Care Academy, Solid Rock International, and Focus Private Academy, among others.

It was besides observed that immoderate backstage institutions person already sent notices to parents, guardians, and teachers, declaring Thursday and Friday this week arsenic mid word break.

One of the notices seen by our analogous reads, “Dear parents, delight beryllium informed that the schoolhouse volition beryllium observing MID-TERM interruption connected Thursday and Friday, 6th and 7th June respectively. Hence, determination volition beryllium nary school.”

The development, it was gathered, whitethorn not beryllium unconnected with the ongoing concern action, arsenic immoderate backstage schools fearfulness being picketed by labour unions successful the coming days if the onslaught persists.

Some teachers who spoke to The Guardian expressed concerns that if backstage schools are unopen down, they won’t beryllium paid for those days.

“We are hoping that the substance won’t escalate and labour unions adjacent down our schoolhouse due to the fact that if they do, our wage won’t beryllium paid for the fig of days it was closed. We would alternatively thatch and get paid than articulation the nationwide onslaught and person our salaries deducted,” the teacher who confided successful our newsman revealed.

In a telephone interrogation with our correspondent, Dr. Stephen Knabayi, Chairperson of the NLC FCT Chapter, said the national would guarantee strict compliance with the concern action. He noted helium was successful the mediate of shutting down buildings successful the nation’s capital.

“I americium monitoring now. I don’t person clip to sermon with you. I americium with a precise ample fig of people, shutting down, monitoring for compliance. You tin perceive from the background,” helium said.