Lagos, June 16, 2019 (NAN) The 37 staff of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin, Lagos, whose appointment were terminated recently have sent a Save our Soul (SOS) message to Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Mr Gabriel Oguntuase the leader of the sacked teacher in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on Sunday begged Sanwo-Olu to save them from starvation and untimely death.
According to Oguntuase, it is indeed unfitting for a College of Education, which prides itself as a foremost teacher training institute in Nigeria to expose teachers to the kind of horrific experience we are undergoing.
He said that some of them were employed as staff of the institution, before moved to teach in their primary and secondary schools while the remaining were given harmonization letter as a bona fide staff of AOCOED.
Oguntuase said that the genesis of the crisis started in 2010 when their promotion in the two schools were stopped.
“We wrote so many letters to the management on the matter but got no response.
” This continued until 2015 when our salary were reduced by more than half and all benefits due to us as statutory employees were taken away.
“From then onward, we were deprived of all allowances including annual increment.
“Then, the council and management of AOCOED went ahead on May 2, to terminate our employment, giving redundancy as a reason without following the rule of redundancy,” he said.
He said that they should have emulated Lagos State University (LASU) that moved all their teaching staff from staff school to various departments and units without slashing their salaries.
Oguntuase appealed to the Lagos Governor and good people of the state to intervene and save them from inhuman treatment meted out to them.
“We are teachers and we are Nigerians. We don’t deserve the treatment we are getting from the management
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