By Taye Obateru

Jos — Teachers in Plateau State have threatened to resume their suspended strike, accusing the state government on reneging on the agreement reached with them.

Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in the state Mr Gunshin Yarling, alleged that the state government had failed to abide by the agreement reached on the 27.5 per cent Teachers’ Salary Structure, TSS, and outstanding three years leave transport allowance.

He said the teachers were dissatisfied with the implementation of the agreement reached to end the over four-month strike and would not return to classes until their demands were fully met.

However, the state government in a swift reaction denied the allegation, saying it had in fact, started a gradual implementation of the agreement.

Commissioner for Education, Prof. Angela Miri, told journalists that the NUT had been trying to resist the verification exercise which would see unqualified teachers being eased out of the system.

“Our children are suffering from the strike. The implementation (of agreement) has started. I have been asking the chairman of State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, on the progress being made and she said NUT was trying to resist the verification exercise that we are going to do which is part of the agreement,” she said.

She appealed to the teachers to consider the negative effect of another strike on school children who were yet to regain lost ground from last year’s four-month strike, adding that those of them with requisite qualification or evidence of having started an NCE programme had nothing to fear.