The teachers have been detained in Lalo District police facility for over a week, VOA Afaan Oromoo reported. "In 2021 we gave 100 percent of our one month salary to be deducted over a year for [PM Abiy Ahmed's] 'Dine for Ethiopia' program. He said that teachers wrote a letter to zonal administration demanding to be paid full amount of their salaries. However, the peace and security head of Lalo Qile town Birhanu Geneti refuted the teachers' accusations and instead claimed that the arrested teachers were those who engaged in acts that could interrupt the teaching-learning process. On 05 December, four teachers, including the president of Arba Minch University Teachers' Association, were arrested in connection with a strike taken into effect by teachers in various universities across the country.

Source: Ethiopian News January 13, 2023 13:20 UTC