Adamawa employs 13,000 teachers to boost education

 

 The Adamawa State Government has employed more than 13,000 teachers to boost secondary school education in the state.

Speaking on Tuesday in Yola, Gabriel Hamman-Adama, the state Commissioner for Education, said that the gesture was to address the problem of inadequate teachers in public schools and also to enhance the quality of education at the schools.

The commissioner said the teachers were employed in five batches within the past three years.
“We have batches A, B and C, D1 and D2,” he said.

Speaking on the issue of non-payment of some of the teacher’s salaries for months, Hamman-Adama attributed the delay to non-compliance with due process on the part of the affected teachers.

According to him, the delay affected those employed under batches D1 and D2, which are now being owed salary arrears of between six and nine months.

“The affected teachers were employed and posted to schools without following the necessary due process of their data being captured in computer due to some unforeseen circumstances,” Hamman-Adama said.

“As I speak to you now, the data capturing group based in Lagos has been invited; all things being equal, we hope to pay them — particularly those in batch D1 — their salary and arrears by the end of September.

“We can then move to those employed under batch D2, who so far have just gotten their employment letters but were yet to be posted by the Post Primary School Board.”