AS schools resume next week, organised labour on the aegis of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday threatened to shut Kings College, Lagos and Federal Government College, Idoani, Ondo State over unpaid salaries and other benefits of education officers outstanding since May 2016, in the schools.

In a press statement in Lagos by its Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, the union said education officers in the schools would not resume classes on Thursday, September 15,2016 unless the salary owed them since May 2016 were paid by Wednesday, September 14,2016.

It regretted that since May 2016, education officers in King’s College, Lagos and Federal Government College, Idoani, Ondo State had been subjected to financial embarrassment in violation of Public Service Rules (PSR).

“It seems that the decision not to pay salaries to education officers in these schools since May is an experiment which will be extended to other schools in due course if there is no resistance from the workers and their trade unions as the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Budget Office of the Federation have continued to shift blames on the matter.