Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has described the statement credited to the Benue State governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP) Herman Hembe accusing his administration of neglecting teachers and the education system, as an action aimed at setting the teachers against him to gain political mileage.
The governor who spoke through his special adviser on media and publicity, Terver Akase in a statement noted that Hembe in his message of felicitation to teachers to commemorate World Teachers Day celebration wrote, “I salute the courage, resilience and commitment of the Benue Teacher, who despite being subjected to neglect and oppressive conditions, strive daily to teach our children at schools. I am saddened that on a day every teacher should be celebrating their esteemed position in society as the builders and shapers of society’s future, teachers in Benue State are wallowing in abject penury, occasioned by perpetual non-payment of salaries, allowances and bonuses. I call on the Ortom-led government to, at least, in the spirit of the celebration, promptly pay our teachers their owed salaries.”
