SUBEB - Butcher, Housewives Among Ghost Teachers Uncovered in Sokoto *** The Sokoto State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Wednesday said it had uncovered a butcher who was hitherto receiving N 57,000 as monthly salary, as one of the 4,000 ghost primary school teachers in the state. Speaking with journalists on his one year in office in Sokoto yesterday, the acting Chairman of SUBEB, Prof. Musa Maitafsir, said the board also discovered that housewives, children and students of some tertiary institutions were previously on the payroll of the board. He disclosed that all the fraudulent acts were brought to an end, as a result of a four-month verification exercise conducted in collaboration with the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT). According to him, the number of teachers in the 1,965 primary schools across the state, thereafter came down from 26,000 to about 22,000 after the exercise. As you are aware, only genuine teachers are now on the payroll of the board, which gave room for the successful implementation of the new national minimum wage in the last few months, he said. The SUBEB boss stated that the board had re-introduced the payment of N 2,000 monthly allowances to the 540 supervisors in the state, certified by the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), in Lagos. Similarly, the board recently bought 23 motorcycles for some monitoring officers, across the state. He noted that all these efforts were aimed at ensuring that only qualified supervisors conduct routine schools supervision, to monitor pupils and check absenteeism by the teachers. We have also centralised the recruitment of teachers at the boards headquarters to avoid the previous fraudulent acts by some officials at the board and in the local government education authorities, Maitafsir stressed. He stated that the state government constructed new schools, rehabilitated others, recruited more teachers as well as provided all the needed materials. Maitafsir maintained that pupils no longer sit on bare floor to learn in schools in the Sokoto metropolis, adding that furniture had been provided across the state, and the exercise was still ongoing. He added that the state government was doing everything possible to restore the lost glory of the teaching profession in the state.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:15:00 +0000
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