The Nigeria Union of Teachers has directed its members not to resume on
September 22, 2014 as directed by the Federal Government, until hand gloves,
sanitisers, infrared thermometers, running water and soap have been provided in
schools.
The NUT said that in states where the necessary Ebola training and
sensitisation had not been done and the gadgets not provided, teachers would
continue to remain at home until their state governments respond or the union
directed them otherwise.
The union’s president, Michael Olukoya, who said this at a news briefing
shortly after holding a meeting with the National Executive Council of the NUT,
on Tuesday in Abuja, however, noted that teachers would resume classes only in
states where they had been trained to handle Ebola outbreaks in obedience to
the Federal Government directive.
He said the union took the decision to protect its members.
He said it was better to delay the resumption of schools till October
13, 2014, when the scourge would have been over than to rush and open the
schools only to be faced with EVD attacks.
He accused unnamed “powerful private school proprietors and
proprietresses” of instigating government officials to insist on opening the
schools on September 22.
Olukoya said, “Where the government insists on September 22 date in
spite of our wise counsel, the union will rather direct teachers to resume
schools whenever they are sufficiently trained and their schools have been
provided with the necessary preventive and protective gadgets.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the teachers have this day resolved to
resume classes in obedience to the Federal Government directive in states where
teachers have been trained to handle any outbreak, and all the preventive
gadgets such as hand gloves, sanitisers, infrared thermometers, running water
and soaps have been provided as directed by the Federal Government; (but) in
states where the training has not been done and the necessary gadgets not
provided, teachers shall continue to remain at home until their state
governments respond positively or the union directs them to the contrary.”
The NUT President stated that the 2014 World Teachers’ Day scheduled for
October 5 would not hold, saying that teachers should rather be allowed to use
the day to organise all necessary sensitisation programmes to get themselves
ready for school resumption.
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Pls Mr president let's give Ebola some time to evacuate. For the safetyof our children.moreso October13 is very ideal.God bless you as we prepare. To re elect you in 2015
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