REVEALED: SYLVA DOLES OUT N5 MILLION TO FINANCE TEACHERS PROTEST IN BAYELSA

Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre  Sylva, has been accused of

sponsoring an impending protest by the teachers in the state against the

incumbent administration.
The protest, allegedly induced by the sum of N5 million given to the

leadership of the teachers' body, was said to be in keeping with Sylva's

promise to make the state ungovernable following his failed governorship

bid.
Accordingly, he saw the delay in the payment of teachers' salary

occasioned by the dwindling economic situation in the country as an

opportune time to mobilize the teachers in the state against the

government.
A reliable source said on Thursday that Sylva had at a meeting in Abuja

with the leadership of the Bayelsa State Wing of National Union of

Teachers (NUT) engineered the protest by giving the sum of N5 million to

the union to embark on the protest.
Condemning the action of the former governor, a youth group, Bayelsa Youth

Movement, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Tarila Solomon,

said Sylva and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state should

desist from such attitude which, he observed, was capable of overheating

the polity. He has therefore cautioned against any misdirection by anyone

in order to allow peace to reign.
He noted that the issue of non-payment of teachers' salary and the

withholding of results of secondary school pupils by the West African

Examinations Council (WAEC) over the state government's delay to pay

statutory dues was not peculiar to the state.
“We are aware that Bayelsa is not the only state owing teachers or WAEC,

therefore, Silva and his APC should desist from this political blackmail

and incitement of violence against the state government. The economic

situation in the state which is national in all ramifications is well

known to all and they should bear with the state government”.

While drawing attention to the “remarkable work” of the state government

to improve education in the state in the last five years, the body said

Sylva lacked the moral justification to criticize the Dickson's

administration, because according to Solomon, what Bayelsa is going

through was “as a result of the terrible failure of the Sylva government.

We will never forget the debt burden left behind by his administration”,

he stated.
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