Teachers’ delayed salaries: Oyo education, finance commissioners, others appear before lawmakers today

Oyo State Commissioners for Education and Finance, Mrs Tokunbo Fayokun and Mr Adedeji Adelabu respectively are due to appear before members of the State House of Assembly, today, over persistent delay in the payment of teachers’ salaries in the state.
The teachers, in a petition signed by Dipo Fawole, had sought the intervention of the lawmakers over the matter, which they said had been going on since the outgone administration of Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala.
Also summoned by the lawmakers, who sat at plenary last week for the first time since returning from a two-week study visit to the United Kingdom (UK), are the permanent secretaries of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and School and administration for all the zones.
The teachers accused officials of the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) “playing pranks” with funds allocated to the commission, adding that the constant delay in teachers’ salaries had continued under the administration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi, against his avowed promise to promptly pay workers’ salaries on the 25th of every month.
The petition stated that teachers' salaries monthly were paid at the end of another month or the third and tghus causing them hardship.
They noted that the inability of the Alao-Akala administration to resolve the matter cost him the governnorship position in the April election in the state.
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