The unique Coronavirus had actually tortured the world and still tormenting it as I compose. Our organisations are not healthy, our schools are close down, not up until recently that our spiritual houses were opened under stringent conditions of operation– social distancing should be exercised inter alia.
Like a Yoruba maxim which goes thus: If there is a celebration in a household, each family member will bear its cost more than one another. Our independent schools’ instructors are relatively the most affected in these trying times. They are depending upon the owners of the schools they work while the owners of the schools are depending upon the trainees’ school charges, whom federal governments have obligatory to stay at house, not since of anything however their safety. If you can live to see the end of this pandemic, you would attend schools of your option, a southwest governor had stated while addressing his state students on the television.
As a corp member, the federal government has not skipped my ‘allawee’ given that the unwanted virus has been kneeling on the neck of our economy, so other federal government employees. Our state governments have been unswervingly trending this course too. Before the general lockdown was relaxed, palliatives worth billions of naira were distributed to Nigerians– courtesy of our state governments and the federal government.
Aside from the dispersed palliatives which I believe didn’t get to some of these teachers, they weren’t provided incomes throughout the lockdown and till this very minute. They depended on their salaries prior to the schools where they teach were close down.
Pitiably, a few of these private schools teachers were collecting as low as N15,000 as monthly wage before the lockdown. The Independent school where I teach as a corper in Oyo State, instructors who were dads and mothers were provided N10,000 regular monthly. Had it been the schoolmaster does pay on time, it would have been better, he pays at the middle of the month, 15 th or 16 th. Whenever the teachers went to him to ask for their incomes, in some cases, he would ask them to wait till the following month. Simply imagine the conditions these teachers would be in these trying times.
On the 23 rd of June, 2020, a news medium published the story of no few than five private primary and secondary schools that were caught holding physical lessons with the students on mufti within the facilities of the schools. Obviously, these teachers do not have other means of livelihood. Why didn’t the federal government main and secondary schools instructors open the schools where they teach?
Nevertheless, this is a call to our federal governments; federal and state federal governments, that these people and private schools teachers are in an unusual condition and as a matter of truth require their succour to suppress their present monetary state. How? Our private schools have records with each state government and federal government, which means the data of the instructors can be quickly accessed. Thereafter, our federal government can engage them and present a non-interest loan to them. A non-interest loan that they won’t be hard for them to pay when our schools are opened. I believe with this, they would be eased.
Aremu Lukman Umor
Lagos Nigeria
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