Unpaid salary: Workers sell land, household items to pay children’s tuition

Civil servants have been struggling to raise money to pay their children’s tuition, as primary and secondary schools pupils resume for the second term academic activities in many states of the federation on Monday, January 11, 2016.

Some civil servants across the country are now putting their goods and properties up for sale to pay their children’s tuition and fund their return to school amid cash crunch, Saturday PUNCH findings have revealed.

Workers are increasingly finding it difficult to cope because of the economic downturn occasioned by falling oil prices in the country as many state governments owe workers’ salaries while some have slashed salaries by up to 50 per cent.

Our correspondents learnt that because of the situation, some civil servants have resorted to selling some of their goods to support their children who are returning to school after the Yuletide break.

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