Subject: Appeal for Help: Unpaid Teachers at UBEC Model Secondary Schools in Cross River State
Good Morning, Dr. Rufai.
I want to sincerely appreciate your consistent advocacy for truth and justice. You have remained the voice for the voiceless, and it is in that spirit that I wish to draw your attention to an ongoing injustice here in Cross River State.
We are teachers working at one of the UBEC Model Secondary Schools, established by the state government. There are only three such schools across the three senatorial districts of Cross River State. Despite being secondary schools, we have discovered that our salaries are being paid through the local government system, as though we were primary school teachers.
Our counterparts under the Secondary Education Board have already been paid up to two months’ salaries, but we, who perform the same duties in UBEC Model Secondary Schools, have not received any salary for September, October, and now November. This makes it three months without pay, even though we are performing full secondary school teaching responsibilities.
We staged a peaceful protest at the local government council to understand why, but no clear explanation was given. The situation is deeply demoralizing, especially as allocation to local governments has already been disbursed monthly.
We urgently need proper placement and recognition as secondary school teachers, not as primary school staff. Our work and responsibilities clearly fall within the secondary education framework.
Please, Dr. Rufai, we appeal to you to help draw the attention of the Governor of Cross River State to this injustice. We are speaking out of pain and desperation, not rebellion. Many of us are breadwinners, and I am sharing this with utmost respect and fear for job security, so I kindly request that my identity be protected.
Thank you, sir, for being the voice of the oppressed and for always standing for what is right.
Respectfully,
A Concerned UBEC Model Secondary School Teacher, Cross River State.
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