Reinstate and compensate the teachers unlawfully dismissed from their duties.
According to Public Service Act, all civil servants, officials and employees are entitled to rights in relation to their conditions of service including the right to seek redress for alleged violations of these rights from their Managing Ministry or the Government.
An excerpt of the Public Service Act that provides for termination of one’s services states that “Civil servants, officials and employees shall be dismissed without notice on the following grounds— (a) irregular or fraudulent recruitment; (b) loss of civil and political rights under the law; (c) unjustified absence for a period of 21 consecutive working days; or (d) unsatisfactory performance during two consecutive performance evaluations”.
Absence from duty without permission: Where a civil servant, official or employee is absent from duty without permission and has been so absent for a period of not less than 45 calendar days.
The Under Secretary may send to the media and post on the notice board of the relevant Ministry, Commission or public institution, a notice informing the Civil servant, official or employee that, unless he or she returns to duty within 7 days after the notice was sent, the Under-Secretary shall recommend that the civil servant, official or employee be dismissed.
However, the magnitude of the teachers’ offense, if any, was not that so grave to call for summary termination of their services, rather a disciplinary matter to be handled by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and some senior civil officials.
After exhausting all available avenues at lower levels, the higher authorities would only come in as a last resort but on condition, the teachers were given a listening ear.
We seem to have picked not the fountain of the nation as such forgotten the core reasons our heroes preferred the wilderness in pursuit of freedom. The very ills they detested are the same path their descendants are subjected to take.
The history of this region, the South, was obscure, marred by oppression, marginalization and discrimination among other inhuman acts meted by the then Khartoum regime.
It’s now that the children of this new nation hope what their forefathers experienced, never reoccurs.
As we tread the path to democracy, let’s cast our eyes on the law to guide our actions, carry peace and harmony at heart to pave a way for a beautiful country.