By Daniel Tyokua
The Federal Capital Territory (FCTA) said it has begun moves to flush out suspected ghost teachers across its schools in the six Area Councils.
Director FCT Secondary Education Board, Sani Ladan during the staff verification exercise at Government Secondary School, Kagini, said the exercise would identify those who are genuine staff as well as wage war against abscondment and other ill acts.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, by the FCT Education Secretariat, said the assessment and verification exercise are valuable tools for background checks of staff in senior secondary schools in rural and urban areas of the territory.
Ladan explained that the exercise is meant to check the issue of workers who received monthly salaries and allowances but are not on ground physically to render the teaching services they have been employed.
He added that the plan is also another initiative of the board in order to verify the staff presence on the field and their credibility at their various Schools of primary assignment.
Ladan maintained that the verification exercise would help the board to know the appropriate data of teaching and non teaching staff in schools for proper planning and to avoid waste of resources, time and having the wrong persons on the teaching job, adding that the teaching job is an organized profession with ethical values guiding it’s operations.
The director reminded the staff of their responsibilities as teachers and role models, even as he urged them to continue to add values to the teaching system by impacting positive knowledge and moulding the students in their custody for a brighter future.
He warned them against non-challant and irresponsible attitudes or encouraging negative vices among the students, adding that anyone caught would be sanctioned.
