Angry teachers have protested government’s shocking decision to pay them with freshly hatched chicks instead of the normal cash.
Teachers
in Uzbekistan were left in shock after government paid them with
chickens instead of cash. The angry teachers complained that they want
cash instead of the chickens given to them.
According
to Metro.co.uk, authorities in Nukus, in the autonomous Karakalpakstan
Republic near the border with Turkmenistan, gave staff freshly hatched
chicks as they had run out of money, Radio Ozodlik reports.
One angry teacher told the channel: ‘Last
year they paid us with potatoes, carrots and pumpkins. This year they
are forcing us to take newborn chickens instead of our wages. If we need
chickens we can buy them from a market at a much cheaper rate.’
Another
source, speaking anonymously so as not to draw the government’s ire,
said the chickens were valued at more than double what they were
actually worth.
The teachers have continued to complain saying they cannot take the chickens as it is almost worthless.
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