An Osun State based Civil Society Organization (CSO), the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has joined millions of people across the country to felicitate with Nigerian Teachers over this year’s Teachers’ Day celebration, calling on governments at all level to adopt special scale salary for teachers in the country.

The group flayed Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, Osun State Governor for being insensitive to the plight of teachers in the state. The group condemned the adoption of payment of modulated salaries for certain categories of teachers in the state, stressing that the financial predicament being given by the state government as reason for the modulated salaries was not tenable but outdated.

This was contained in a felicitation message signed by the CSCEOS’ Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman, to mark the Teachers’ Day celebration with the Osun teachers in order to appreciate their role in nation building. The theme of this year’s Teachers Day celebration is: ‘Teaching Freedom, Empowering Teachers’.

Adeniyi alleged that Osun State teachers were working under threat and duress due to bad educational policy of the state government.

According to the group, “Teachers in any clime, particularly in Osun State, are great contributors to our national development. The welfare of the state teachers under the present administration of Mr. Rauf Aregbesola is nothing to write home about. The state government just subjected the teachers in the state to coercive system of educational policy.

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