Customs Alara threatens to stop education in Mudaraba Lahj
English - Sunday 09 October 2022 الساعة 08:38 am
Lahj, NewsYemen, Mohieddin Al-Subaihi:
Omar Muhammad, 34, refuses to engage in teaching following the decision of the Southern Teachers Syndicate to lift the strike announced last week, following a meeting that included the union with member of the Presidential Council, Major General Aidarous al-Zubaidi.
Omar says that the local authority and the Education Office in Mudaraba, which is the largest district of Lahj, did not pay its contractual dues during the last four months of the past academic year for teaching at Othman bin Affan School in the north of the district.
Omar is not the only one who refuses to engage in the educational corps for this year, but there are about 200 contractors. The Education Office announced speculation in coordination with the local authority in the district that they were contracted last year to cover the deficit due to the retirement of more than 200 teachers in the district, which caused a major imbalance in The course of the educational process forced the closure of some schools
Omar says that he was happy to contract with him after waiting ten years for graduation, in the hope that this would alleviate the unemployment vacuum that young people suffer from, and he and dozens of his contracting colleagues began working vigorously despite the mistake he had suffered. In the first two months, he was paid the salary of a diploma holder, although he holds a bachelor's degree, but he continued and made every effort to serve the educational process in the school in which he arranged by walking about an hour's distance on foot, but those hopes faded after only two months through many Excuses After the office failed to pay the rest of the months and in response to the conscience and the desire of the parents, we continued to work voluntarily for free until we finished the school year for free, and most of us agreed not to engage this year until the previous dues were paid.
The Office of Education, in coordination with the local authority in speculation and lending, benefited from the revenues of the customs port of Al-Ara, which was inaugurated four years ago, to announce contracts with 200 contractors of various grades to cover the shortage in 48 primary and secondary schools in the district, where the salary of forty thousand was allocated for the high school qualification and fifty thousand For the diploma qualification, sixty thousand riyals for the bachelor’s qualification and seventy thousand riyals for the master’s qualification, as the office succeeded in spending the months of October and November and was unable to pay the rest of the months, which created a wave of anger among the contracting teachers.
Muhammad Salih, the contractor at Al-Nabia School, held the Education Office responsible for what happened to the contractors and for not fulfilling its obligations towards dozens of contractors in the district's schools. He added that some of the contractors were working in other professions, so they left and returned to teaching in the hope that this step would be a way to install, but they were surprised that this dream was dissipated after only two months from the beginning.
He said that they tried to contact the Education Office, but the office never responded to their inquiries regarding their entitlements and did not answer their calls, which created a state of discontent and anger despite the large revenues that are made through customs in the Ras al-Ara area, where the directorate obtains 35% of it, but we do not know. In which doors are cashed.
He stressed that at the end of last year, some of us decided to stop and go on strike in protest against the non-payment of one month's dues from the first and second semesters, and we wanted not to take exams. But we responded to the people’s pleas, took the exams, handed them in, and entered Ramadan, after which we did not receive a single penny of our rights, despite our need to spend on our families.
Contractors represent half of the teaching staff in all 48 schools in the district. As the entry of 200 retirees to the age of termination of service caused only 250 basic teachers to remain in the district's schools, which forced schools to close, and the monthly cost for contractors of all degrees is 9,600,000 riyals.
Late last month, Lhaj Education Office issued a decision appointing a new director of the Education Office in Lahj, who is the teacher in the Arabic language department at the College of Education in Sabr Khaldoun Zain, to succeed Fahd Abdel Qader educational or not.
