Security guards on Monday barred pupils and teachers from getting access into some public primary schools in Port Harcourt over unpaid salaries.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the security guards said they had not been paid for 11 months.

One of them, Mr Chijioke Amah, said: “we want government to pay us, every worker deserves to be paid, they have been unfair to us; they make it look as if our services here are not needed.’’

Some teachers, who spoke to NAN at Port Harcourt Centenary Model Primary School Rumuwoji, said it was not the first time they would be locked out by the security guards.

“We all stood outside here for more than three hours before the gate was opened, the guards have been lamenting non-salary payments for several months.

“Each time they lock us out, we will spend several hours outside, we end up losing some work hours, this is not good,’’ a teacher who pleaded anonymity said.

NAN reports that it took the intervention of Rivers Commissioner for Education, Mr Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja, for the gates to be opened.

The commissioner, who pledged to look into the matter, said: “It is very unfort

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Wike, why?
WHY subject these guys to a perpetually low standard of living?
Wike! Wike!! Wike!!!
How many times did I just mention your name?

Don't be an IRRESPONSIBLE idiot like the one in Kogi.

Whoever thinks Nyesom Wike is working in Rivers State is either not living in the state or one of those who benefit from the crumbs of the government.
Just some weeks back workers of RSSDA protested the non payment of salary arreas of 24 months, with Pensioners not left out of this group too.

The city is unkept and flood ravaging every parts due to lack of drainage and poor sanitary condition.

Wike does not have any laid out plan for governance and runs the state like his personal estate.
Even state budget is shrouded in secrecy while he gallivant round the country using state fund to lobby for his vice Presidential political ambition.

It will take another decade to bring back the glory of Rivers state and indeed port Harcourt because of one man's misrule.