Teachers of state-run University of Liberia (UL) are currently on a go-slow again after another go slow was stage in July in demand of their salaries, as pressure mounts on the CDC government which is finding it difficult to meet up with its wage bill.
The instructors go-slow action began Thursday morning, October 17, 2019 and it comes barely hours after a press release was issued on Monday October 14, 2019, which states that ‘the leadership of the University of Liberia faculty association (ULFA) wishes to inform all members of the faculty of the University of Liberia that there will be an emergency meeting on Wednesday October 16, 2019 in the theater at the Fedell Campus.’
The release further said, high on the agenda of the emergency meeting will be discussion of the delay in salaries payment and the way forward.
A meeting, which was held on Thursday suspending all classes at the campuses of the University of Liberia, did not meet the demand of aggrieved teachers which prompted their go slow action.
The UL faculty association go slow came barely a days after the Monrovia consolidated school System teachers go slow in demand of salaries and other benefits.
Similar go-slow action by teacher of the Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS) triggered a violent street protest by the public school students on Tuesday in solidarity of their teachers. They called President George Weah to pay their teachers so that they can return in their respective classes.
“You can pay Zogoes, but you don’t want to pay teachers,” MCSS students chanted as President Weah’s convoy sped through the roadblocks set up by the students on the Tubman Bourlevard close to his Foreign Ministry office.
That protest left a number of student badly injured after police used force to quell the demonstration.
However, in an interview with a student who study Public Administration and Economic at the University of Liberia main campus on Capitol Hill in Monrovia, Sedeke Trawally said it very much frustrating in such a economic hardship to transport himself since Tuesday of this week on to meet empty classes without instructors.
According to him, he lives in Gandersville from where he has to pay big fare to go to campus and he blamed the government for not playing its role by paying all government employees on time. Report by Garmah Never Lomo