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Social media influencers have criticised the Borno state government over less salary payment of primary state teachers in the state. The uproar in the social media started when a primary school teacher from Biu local government screen shot his salary of 7,000 on his Facebook page.
The post which angered many people on the social media flat forms has generated thousands shares and comments from people critizing the state governor. Tracking his antecedent the state governor who was once a teacher is expected to enhance the welfare of the teachers across the state.
Meanwhile, the responding to the allegation the State government has on a release has confirmed that it is true that some teachers are being paid less than 11,000 as salary.
The statement which was released by the Borno state governor media aide Malam Isa gusau clerifies that some of the teachers are going through screening.
Gusau recalled that Zulum himself admitted that whereas the minimum wage was already implemented for all workers at the State Government levels including teachers, the implementation at the LEA could only be done after the system was sanitized just as it was done for State workers, Gusau recalled.
To prepare LEA teachers for national minimum wage, Governor Zulum had constituted a committee to conduct basic literacy and numeracy tests as well as competency assessment on all 17,229 LEA Local teachers across Borno’s 27 Local Government Areas.
On February 17, 2022, the State’s Commissioner of Education, Engr. Lawan Abba Wakilbe, a highly experienced, competent and hard working educationist, who chaired the Committee, presented what Zulum later described as a scary report.
The committee found that out of 17,229 existing LEA teachers, a total of 11,790 representing 69% of the entire LEA teachers, were found unqualified to teach.
2,389 of the LEA teachers had no academic qualification whatsoever, not even secondary school certificates.
In fact, 3,815 of the LEA teachers were found to be untrainable.
Only 5,439 teachers (31.6%) were good enough to teach, out of the 17,229 teachers assessed by the Committee.
