July 10, 2008	Thursday	Rajab 6, 1429

THATTA, July 9: A large number of secondary schoolteachers staged a sit-in on the National Highway on Wednesday, bringing traffic to a halt for over an hour, in protest against the EDO of education.

The protesters marched on the main thoroughfares of the city before staging a sit-in in front of the press club situated on the highway.

The leaders of the Government Secondary Teachers Association, which organised the protest, accused the EDO of malpractices, irregularities and ill-treatment.

They alleged that the EDO, an officer of grade-18, who had been working on a post of grade-20, also held charge of the head master Thatta high school, was twice suspended for his involvement in misappropriation of millions of rupees of funds.

They said that the EDO openly told everybody that he had got the EDO post after greasing the palms of a local leader hence it was his right to get back what he had invested.

They demanded that the government remove the EDO and hold an open inquiry into his corruption.