Nwokonna Emmanuel. umuahia

FINALLY, the camel back has been broken as Abia State Universal Basic Education Board ASUBEB over the weekend proceeded on indefinite strike for over 6 months salary arrears by the Abia state government despite receiving 4 billion naira education grant which was facilitated through the board.

In an interview with some staff of the board who spoke to our reporter on the condition of anonymity said that the governor had deceived them severally and that each time they want to embark on industrial action over unpaid salaries, Governor ikpeazu will call them for a meeting and plead with them to suspend and go back to work while promising to offset the salaries as quickly as possibly but on each occasion he has failed without coming back to them for explanation.

While narrating the reason for the strike, they said what angered them the more was the meeting they held with the governor last week where he pleaded and cried to them in his usual manner with a promise to credit them with two months salary on Friday 29 of October 2016 out of over six months being owed them, but as predictable as Dr. Ikpeazu has become he failed them again.

According to our source, the entire staff and management of ASUBEB have grown tired of the governor’s insincerity and failed promises and decided to proceed on indefinite strike as they can’t continue coming to work with empty stomach and borrowing to pay transport to and from work anymore.

ABN gathered that the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) units of the 17 Local Government Area (LGA) have threatened to join the strike if the government remains adamant to the request of NASU, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) branch. Nigeria Union Teachers (NUT) is not left out in this struggle...http://www.abnews247.com/asubeb-embarked-on-indefinite-strike-says-gov-ikpeazu-has-decieved-them-enough/