DSS SACKS OVER 100 TEACHERS IN ITS ABUJA SCHOOLS FOR JOINING NUT
The Department of State Service (DSS) on Monday, November 2, sacked over 100 teachers in its primary and secondary schools, Community Staff Schools, in Asokoro, Abuja.
This was disclosed in a disengagement letter signed by the Executive Secretary of the Community Staff Schools,
M. O. Onyilo, on Monday.
The letter read:“Due to the effect of COVID-19 on the Nigerian economy vis-a-vis the crippling financial situation in the school, I am directed to convey the Director General, State Services (DGSS)/Proprietors’ approval to disengage you from the services of the school with effect from 3rd November 2020. Meanwhile, you are expected to handover all school properties in your custody to the Secondary School Secretary.
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“You may wish to contact your Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) for your benefits. The Proprietor wishes you well in your future endeavours, please.”
Report however says the teachers were dismissed because they insisted on joining the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), but the school management under the DSS will not allow that.
NUT took the management to Industrial Court on behalf of the teachers and won.
The management had appealed the judgment and the appeal was thrown out in 2018 for lack of merit as it was against Section 40 of CFRN 1999.
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The National Industrial Court also restrained the management of the schools from dismissing, disengaging, locking out or terminating the appointments the teachers for engaging in activities as members of the NUT without complying with the Public Service Rules.
“The teachers were said to have started a new agitation to join the NUT few weeks ago, the management invited DSS men to quell that including shooting of tear gas and gun shots. Only for the management to sack all of them after work today and asked the school children to stay away for two weeks,” report says.
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