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Hopes for resolving teachers’ strike

    ABIDJAN

    The president of the Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union (SLTU), Festus Minah, has called on the government to ensure that issues which precipitated a nationwide “stay home” action last week are resolved, the Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA) reported on Monday.

    The union’s action is over the late payment of teachers’s salaries, and the forceful retirement of teachers, SLENA said.

    Presidential spokesman Septimus Kaikai told IRIN on Tuesday that following a meeting on Monday between government officials, the Ministry of Education and SLTU, “the teachers will be receiving quite a bit of money before the end of this week.”

    Minah said that teachers were ready to offer quality education to their students provided the government live up to the expectation of the teachers, SLENA reported.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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