Rivers PDP gives Amaechi, seven days to pay teachers’ salaries

Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned in strong terms, the non-payment of salaries of the newly recruited teachers in the state for four months, regretting the inconveniences they have suffered.
The party attributed the state government’s inability to pay the teachers to mismanagement, poor financial planning and politicization of all sectors of Rivers economy allegedly by Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
It also dismissed the explanation offered by the Rivers State Ministry of Education that the State government lacks funds to pay the teachers have vindicated the Party’s position that the Rivers State government is broke.
A statement signed by Jerry Needam, Special Adviser on Media to the State PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah, says the Governor’s action has further confirmed that gathering the newly recruited teachers at the liberation stadium under the guise of issuing them employment letters, and later planned to use them to protest against the President of Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan has vindicated the position of the Rivers State Commissioner of Police.
The statement states, “In the light of the above, the PDP warns Governor Rotimi to stop playing politics with the lives and future of these innocent newly recruited teachers and also admonishes him (Amaechi) to settle down in Rivers State to face the mirage of problems he has created with a sincere determination to solving them, rather than chasing shadow in the name of All Progressives Congress, APC”.
The Governor’s insensitivity to the plights of the recently engaged civil servants in the State has caused so much embarrassment to Rivers People within and outside the country. It is in this respect that the PDP as a responsible Party regrets and apologises for the choice of Amaechi as Governor of the State.
In the same vein, the Party also condemned the N24, 000 basic monthly salary earmarked for each of the newly recruited teachers, stressing that such amount falls short of what is paid graduates all over, as basic salary.
The party therefore, asked Governor Amaechi to without further delay regularize this anomaly and pay all these graduate teachers, what is obtainable in civil service.
The party, issues a 7 (seven) day ultimatum to the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi to pay all salaries and allowances owed all newly recruited teachers in the State.