{"id":19035,"date":"2022-06-20T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute"},"modified":"2022-06-20T13:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T13:59:53","slug":"13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute","title":{"rendered":"13 teachers detained over salary dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Over a dozen teachers from Lakes State have allegedly been detained by security forces over pay dispute with government.<\/p>\n<p>The City Review understands that 13 teachers were rounded off by the military in the state capital, Rumbek after they staged a protest demanding full payment of their salaries.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source who spoke to City Review on condition of anonymity, the teachers were met by shock to learn that the government did not execute a 2021 order by President Salva Kiir to increase teacher\u2019s pay by 100 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalaries have been paid through the old stricter payroll,\u201d said our source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they discovered that the money was less, they decided to demand full pay \u2013 the 100 per cent raise that the president announced last year in July. That is when the Minister of Education ordered for their arrest,\u201d added our source.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Makoi, the Minister for Education did not respond to our question neither did he deny that the teachers have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>According to global partnership, there are about 26,000 registered primary school teachers in South Sudan, 18,000 of which are currently on government payroll. Only about 4,000 of these teachers are qualified.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. Over a dozen teachers from Lakes State have allegedly been detained by security forces over pay dispute with government. The City Review understands that 13 teachers were rounded off by the military in the state capital, Rumbek after they staged a protest demanding full payment of their salaries. According to a source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[234,265,3119,3122,240,233,3120,3121],"class_list":["post-19035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-nelson-makoi","tag-rumbek-teachers","tag-salva-kiir","tag-south-sudan","tag-teacher-detained","tag-teachers-salary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>13 teachers detained over salary dispute - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over a dozen teachers from Lakes State have allegedly been detained by security forces over pay dispute with government. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"13 teachers detained over salary dispute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over a dozen teachers from Lakes State have allegedly been detained by security forces over pay dispute with government. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-20T13:43:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-20T13:59:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_25-62b07d3f34619.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"13 teachers detained over salary dispute\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-20T13:43:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-20T13:59:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_25-62b07d3f34619.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"Nelson Makoi\",\"Rumbek Teachers\",\"Salva Kiir\",\"South-Sudan\",\"Teacher Detained\",\"Teachers Salary\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/13-teachers-detained-over-salary-dispute\",\"name\":\"13 teachers detained over salary dispute - 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