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Assembly Summons SUBEB over Teachers’ Postings

The Kwara State House of Assembly has directed its Committee on Education and Human Capital Development to summon the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) to brief the Committee on the number of teachers in all the primary schools in the State.The directive followed a motion on notice on the urgent deployment of teachers to primary schools in Kaiama Local Council of the state raised by a member representing Kaiama, Wajibe, Kemanji Constituency, Alhaji Ahmed Ibn Mohammed.In view of tapering federal allocation, the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the establishment of a Local Government Stakeholders Committee to devise new strategies for managing local government revenues.According to Alhaji Ahmed, the Committee’s mandate is to identify fresh strategies for managing and distributing local government revenue to ensure the timely payment of local government workers and other obligations within the ambits of the law. The Committee is also to ensure that the specific needs of each council are met according to available resources, since the allocation to all levels of governments, including local government councils, is unlikely to improve in the nearest future.The House equally directed its Committee on Education and Human Capital Development to visit primary schools in all the three Senatorial Districts in the State with a view to having first-hand information on the present conditions of primary schools in the State as well as posting of their teachers.Alhaji Mohammed, who moved the motion, had observed that primary schools in Kaiama had played significant role in moulding the past and current leaders of the nation but expressed sadness that most of the primary schools in the area now lack teachers in core subjects.He said primary schools in Kaiama required about 687 teachers but presently has 365.The co-mover of the motion and a Member representing Okuta, Yashikira Constituency, Alhaji Adamu Usman blamed the mass exodus of teachers in the area on lack of enough infrastructure and enjoined government to address the infrastructural deficit in the area.

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