An Abuja based constitutional lawyer, Prince Orji Nwafor-Orizu has warned the members of the National Union of Teachers to desist from their planned protest in Anambra.
Nwafor-Orizu in an interview with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY condemned the proposed protest by the NUT in Anambra State on January 2012 to register its displeasure with government in the handing over of public schools to missions.
He called on the group to seek other ways of negotiating with the? missions to see how their staff could be pensionable, rather than disrupting governments plan to bring back glory to education in the state.
“Labour Organizations do not formulate policies. Education policies for schools are the constitutional right of the government, and that is what they have done.
“The NLC or NUT should negotiate with the missionaries so that the teachers in those schools handed over are protected and their service pensionable. That is the role expected of the Union or Labour Organisation.”
He noted that the action of the state government was commendable and well thought out and should be emulated by other governors for the glory of the public school system to be restored.
LEADERSHIP SUNDAY recall that Obi had earlier explained his action in handing 1,040 public schools in the state to missionaries, saying he will continue to pay their salaries, while the missions do the administrative job.