The recent distribution of COVID-19 palliatives to
teachers in Lagos State continue to generate conversations among
primary and secondary school teachers as many of them rejected the
food items they were given.
On Wednesday, November 18, 2020,
Pulsereported that many teachers in Ojo Local
Government Area of the state received a sachet of noodles and a
sachet of biscuit as palliatives.
While the Chairman of the National Union of Teachers
(NUT) in the area, Tajudeen Oladipupo denied the
report, saying no teacher was given such negligible food items,
more teachers in primary and secondary schools in the state have
confirmed that they received palliatives that tend to reduce their
status.
The NUT chairman had argued that the teachers’ claims
were not true because none of them reported to him.
He said, “When I got the palliatives from our state
office, I moved them straight to the office of the Chairman,
Association of Nigerian Primary School Teachers, who also doubles
as the Chairman of headteachers in Ojo Local Government, and I
handed them over to him and took some snapshots with him and the
Deputy Chairman, and nobody has reported anything to me, if they
have reported to you and have not reached out to me, I don’t think
I have anything to say about it”.
Some teachers, who spoke to our source on condition of
anonymity due to fear of intimidation said the distribution of the
palliatives started shortly after schools resumed following the
#EndSARS crisis in the state.
A secondary school teacher in District V said, three
cartons of noodles were sent to the school for 34 teachers with an
instruction that two cartons be given to the principal and
vice-principal, while others would share one carton among
themselves.
At
a secondary school in Ajeromi Ifelodun, each teacher was given four
sachets of noodles, a cup of rice, (milk tin), N100 Dangote sugar,
and a tin of garri (tomato paste tin, aka de rica).
A teacher in Ojo Local Government said each teacher in
her school went home with four sachets of noodles and two cups of
rice.
Describing the palliatives as an eyesore, another
teacher in the area said some of the food items like pasta sent to
the school had gone so bad that their packages had torn and
broken.
Another senior secondary school teacher at Amuwo Odofin
area of the state disclosed that each teacher at his school was
able to get four sachets of noodles because the school principal
and vice-principal rejected the palliatives.
“We could not share the sugar they gave us because
it was too little to be shared. They also gave us two 5kg bags of
rice for about 20 teachers in the school.”
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