The school cited the biting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for the mass retrenchment. However, following public outcry, the workers were recalled days after PREMIUM TIMES’ report.Demands
Mr Nwagu, who reiterated that the workers were not on strike as being insinuated in some quarters, said “we are only protesting against injustice.”Another staff member who asked not to be named complained about how they have been facing arbitrary pay cuts since the school resumed in the post-COVID lockdown.
She said their salaries were increased to what they were earning before the pandemic as the school resumed in November. The suit, which was then challenging the sacking of some workers of the school for their link to NUT, lingered for five years.The then President of the court, Babatunde Adejumo, now retired, had declared that the workers are public servants “within the intendment of the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended and by virtue of their contract of employment.”
Mr Adejumo also declared the sacking of the teachers of the school as illegal and ordered that they should be reinstated with accrued benefits paid to them. A panel of Justices of the court affirmed the lower court’s verdict and dismissed the appeal lodged by the SSS in 2018.
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