House of Reps suspend plenary till February 16

The House of Representatives has commenced on a two-week break from plenary to resume on Tuesday 16February.

Speaker Yakubu Dogara announced the suspension at the House.This is as the Chairman of the committee on Media andPublicity, Abdulrazak Namdas told House of Representatives correspondents that the break from plenary would give members ample time to work with Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on the 2016 budget at the committee level.

Meanwhile, the House has called on the federal government to halt the mass retrenchment of teachers and workers of University Staff Secondary Schools andPrimary Schools.

To this end, the House mandated its committee on Tertiary Education to meet with the Minister of Education to explain the new policy.

The resolution followed the passage of a motion sponsored by Babatunde Gabriel Kolawole under matters of Urgent Public Importance.

Leading the debate on the motion, Kolawole argued that any policy that would render teachers and general workers of University Staff Secondary Schools and Primary Schools, who are employees of the government, jobless puts the country at a disadvantage.

He said: “These teachers and general workers have long been engaged and have put in many years in the service of their fatherland ranging between 10 and 30 years or more, in the case of some of them.

"The economic reality of the moment and the general economic hardship people are going through today in Nigeria as a result of lack of gainful employment and under-employment, will be worsened by the decision of the government to close all these schools.”

The House in its resolution also urged the Federal Government to make efforts to absorb teachers and workers already affected into the general university staff pool.

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