Two pregnant women collapsed and died in Bauchi, on Tuesday, while waiting to be screened by the Verification Team from the office of the Accountant General of the state government.
The two pregnant women were among the over 6,000 teachers in the state that were declared as ghost workers by the state government on assumption of office. Hope rose for them when the state NLC took up their case and the state government asked them to assemble at the state local government education secretariat for screening before collecting their salaries.
An eyewitness, Abubakar Yusuf , a teacher at the Baba Didi primary school said that the first woman, who was seven months pregnant, fainted when the crowd were pushing to be verified, a situation that triggered a congestion during the exercise.
He said they all assembled at the local government education authority for the verification, “because we have not been paid for three months. People came from all the local government areas of the state, so there was a massive crowd that gathered at the venue.
“The verification exercise took us by surprise because we were in the classroom teaching when we were summoned for the screening. That was why there was a large turn-out of people.”
He added: “Some of the people who came early were lucky enough to be verified, but as the crowd kept increasing, people began to push each other. In the process, an unidentified pregnant woman fainted and went into a comma.”
“Another pregnant woman also collapsed and had a miscarriage instantly. The two pregnant women were rushed to the hospital for treatment. We later heard that they died.”
Fellow Nigerians, why should these women die simply because they wanted to be paid for services they rendered to the state? Why should the state government not try to ease the sufferings of the teachers during verification exercises by finding alternative methods that will not lead to congestion of centres?
I see this exercise to be very unnecessay because there are better ways of doing it without this excruciating and harsh way that tells on the age and health conditions of the workers. This is my position, I don't know about you; but whatever the case is, evil remains evil and must be condemned!

Who u epp? Who u epp? Who u epp? U don baff? Who u serve? Don't slam my door whats wrong with you

They are now officially ghost workers

This is not fair!!!!!!