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Retirement age: Ondo NASU joins protest

Members of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) in Ondo state from basic and secondary schools have joined their counterpart nationwide to stage a peaceful protest to seek their inclusion in the extension of the retirement age at teachers from 60 to 65 years and the years of service from current 35 to 40 years.
The three-day protest started on Monday and will end today.
The NASU members who carried placards with different inscriptions, are from Public Basic and Secondary Schools across the 18 local government areas of the state.
The members defied the early morning rain and converged on the headquarters of Ondo state Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), the Governor’s office and the State Assembly complex at Alagbaka Akure to seek the state government’s support for their agitation.
Addressing the protesting Non-Academic Staff in Akure, the Ondo state Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Sunday Adeleye-Oluwole represented by the Congress Secretary, Comrade Omokehinde Shado, described as unjust the exclusion of Non-Teaching staff in the federal government’s incentive.
Adeleye-Oluwole noted that extending retirement age of Non-Teaching staff like teachers would bring high productivity and efficiency into the secondary school education, urging President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to grant the NASU demands for its members.
Also speaking, the Ondo state Chairman of NASU, Comrade Adebayo Obayoriade and the State Secretary of the union, Alhaji Adewale Sanusi, said their members are well qualified to be included in the extension of retirement age and to benefit from a Special Salary Scale and enhanced allowances.
Speaking on behalf of Government, the Head of Service, Pastor Adeniran Adeyemo said the NASU demands would be submitted to the appropriate quarters for necessary actions at the federal and state levels.
On 5th October, 2020, His Excellency, the President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Honourable Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu at the 2020 World Teachers’ Day Celebration held at the Eagle Square, Abuja announced incentives for Teachers in Public Basic and Secondary Schools in Nigeria which include extension of the retirement age of teachers to 65 years and the years of service to 40 years from the current 35 years as well as Special Salary Scale and enhanced allowances.
The Federal Executive Council at its meeting on Wednesday 20th January 2021 gave approval to the incentives, while the Honourable Minister of Education announced at a Press Conference that a Bill titled: Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Bill (2021) would soon be transmitted to the National Assembly in order to be enacted into law.
Unfortunately the Non-Teaching staff in the Schools system were excluded from the gesture

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