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Boko Haram: 547 teachers killed in North-east – NUT

byAzeezat Adedigba
February 19, 2020
2 min read

The National Union of Teachers says 547 teachers have been killed in the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast region of Nigeria.

The president of the union, Nasir Idris, said this in Abuja on Tuesday during the 2020 edition of the union’s Solemn Assembly.

He did not state the period during which the casualties were recorded, as the insurgency in the northeast of Nigeria has run for over a decade.

He also said the government has not paid the benefits of the deceased teachers to their families.

“It is unfortunate that some of the children of these teachers affected are dropped out of school sitting at home, some can’t even go to their workplaces, ”he said.

Mr Idris said the union is engaging the affected state governments to ensure that the death benefits of the deceased teachers get to their families.

He also spoke on the meeting the union held with President Muhammadu Buhari on its request to adjust the retirement age of teachers to 65 years.

”President Buhari directed that a memo be written through the Minister of Education itemising our request on the retirement age for onward approval, ”he said.

“We have made headway, we have passed all the processes, from the Senate to the House of Representatives, everybody is in consonance with the agitation of the Nigerian teachers on the retirement age issue. We look at it that the gesture that allows university lecturers to teach till 65 should be passed onto us teachers of primary and secondary schools.”

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He said re-adjusting teachers retirement age to 65 would revive classrooms across the country.

Mr Idris said state governments no longer recruit teachers for rural areas which has created a gap in the education system.

“Therefore we are having a shortage of teachers in our primary and secondary. That is why we are demanding that the retirement age be made 65, so that when local and state governments fail to recruit teachers we will be able to manage the ones in the system before their retirement.”

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President Buhari in January acknowledged that Nigeria had a deficit of teachers.

The president also said the federal government was ready to engage more qualified teachers to increase the teacher-to-pupil ratio in the country.

The prayer

In his sermon at the event, an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Muhammad Bin Uthman who said the first session of prayers, said, killings in the country have nothing to do with Islam.

The cleric appealed to the government to secure the country, ensure food security, provide jobs, quality education, healthcare and Infrastructure.

He advised the teachers to respect the claimable rights of the Nigerian child.

Mr Uthman appealed for better remuneration for teachers and advised teachers to avoid strike as much as possible.

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For the second prayer session, Ben \Egemba said teaching is a painstaking work that needs patience and endurance. The Christian cleric advised teachers to go beyond teaching and become role models who encourage learning.

Mr Egemba said teachers remain parents and leaders.

During the solemn assembly, clergymen took turns to lead the teachers in special prayers against what they called the evil forces of educational decay, corruption, maladministration, insecurity and underdevelopment.

The teachers prayed for peace to return to Nigeria and end to all forms of insurgency and forces of destabilisation.

The assembly also prayed for presidential assent to the bill on the adjustment of the retirement age of teachers to 65 years, as well as for greater attention to the welfare of Nigerian teachers.

The teachers also prayed for all teachers in Nigeria who died in the line of duty, kidnap victims and all internally-displaced persons to return to their homes.

The NUT Solemn Assembly was designed to kick start the activities of the union in the new year while committing the members and the annual plan of actions of the union to the guidance of God.

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Azeezat Adedigba covers the education and labour sectors for PREMIUM TIMES. She is also an investigative journalist and the winner of the 2019 Female Reporters Leadership Program (FRLP) organised by Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). Azeezat is passionate about women and children advocacy. She holds a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Jos. She can be reached on Twitter @Adebimpe57.

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