Parents and guardians of students in both primary and post primary schools in Kwara State have commenced the mass movement of their children to other neighbouring states in view of the ongoing prolong strike embarked upon by their teachers and lecturers due to non-payment of their salaries by the government.

Also Monday, the councils chairmen in the 16 local government councils in the state under the aegis of Association of the Local Government Council of Nigeria (ALGON) and leadership of ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) in the state have commended an advocacy strategy among stakeholders in the state over the inability to pay council workers who have been owed four months.

Teachers in primary and junior secondary schools had commenced an indefinite strike last week over unpaid four months salaries while lecturers of the state-owned Colleges of Education had been on strike since September last year thereby bringing the total collapse of schools in the state.

The strike also affected all council workers in the 16 local government councils of the state over the non payment of their salaries for over four months.

The mass movement of the students to neighbouring states schools like Ekiti, Kogi, Oyo, Ogun according to THISDAY investigations might not be unconnected with the current falling standardof education in the state occasioned by unpaid salaries to teachers and lecturers of t tertiary institutions and primary and junior secondary schools teachers in the state.

The parents and guardians, it was gathered, were allegedly disturbed by the continuous stay-at-home of their children which is having adverse effect on their education.

Some of the parents according to THISDAY investigations were worried by the ugly development and the only way out is to look out for schools in another states of the federation so as to assist their children match up with their academic excellence.

For example, according to the affected parents, for the past five months now, students of the state-owned tertiary institutions such as the Colleges of Education in Ilorin, Oro and Lafiagi had been on strike following the non payment of their lecturers salaries and entitlements and just last week, teachers of both primary and junior secondary schools had joined the strike while those in senior secondary had joined in solidarity.