By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI—Teachers engaged by Imo State government, under its Youths Must Work scheme in 2013, have cried out to Governor Rochas Okorocha to clear their 11 months arrears of stipends.

The aggrieved citizens also asked the state governor to fulfil his 2014 promise of converting their engagement into a permanent and pensionable status.

According to a release by Chinwe Osuji, the teachers who were employed in 2013, expressed the hope that they would have been celebrating their conversion with Okorocha’s second tenure.

Osuji recalled that the governor invited the Youths Must Work teachers and addressed them at the Heroes Square, Owerri, in March 2014, where he promised to convert their engagement to permanent employment after one year.

While expressing regret that the governor’s promise had remained a mirage thereafter, the teachers also said their status remained unchanged, despite passing through all manner of screening.

The angry teachers said they could no longer feed or transport themselves to and from their schools of posting.