A coalition of civil society groups, Rivers State Civil Society Organisations, has pleaded with Governor Nyesom Wike to pay seven years arrears of teachers of staff schools of state-owned tertiary institutions. An open letter signed by the chairman of the group, Mr Enefaa Georgewill, said many of the teachers have died awaiting the payment of the arrears. He added that their defendants have dropped out of school while some are very ill with no proper medication.