Kwara Govt Takes Stand on 2019 SUBEB Workers, Offsets Pending 7 Months’ Salaries

Date: 2020-12-25

· New employment portal opens Jan 2021

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has directed the immediate payment of seven months salaries earlier withheld from 594 SUBEB teachers since June, 2020.

The salaries have been paid on Thursday night on compassionate grounds as their employment status remains unofficial, according to a government statement on Thursday.

The statement reads: “Everyone whose salaries were withheld since June has now had same paid strictly on compassionate grounds. The government’s decision to withhold their salaries was not unilateral or punitive. It was as a result of the unlawful insertion of their names to the payroll without executive approval. The government has since then conducted extensive investigations which revealed the following:

· A total number of 2,414 SUBEB teachers were engaged in the twilight of the past administration. They are otherwise called sunset workers.

· This figure is a violent contravention of the executive approval by former Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed who had authorised the employment of 1,100 qualified teachers to take English Language, Mathematics, and Science subjects only.

· On assumption of office in 2019, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, faced with conflicting claims on these workers, magnanimously authorised the screening of all of them, after which 1,658 were cleared as qualified. Surprisingly, additional 594 got inserted into the payroll. There are claims that 162 more were part of the mix. This was discovered during Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s investigation of the untidy process that kept throwing up conflicting figures of employees and mind-boggling details of how non-qualified persons were engaged.

· For instance, it was discovered that several of the 1,658 purportedly adjudged to be qualified do not in fact have required teaching certificates. It was discovered that teachers were engaged for subjects not covered in the executive approval, underscoring the unwholesome and impeachable nature of the entire process.

· Flowing from the above, the government has decided to start the employment process all over again in January 2021. The government will open a new application portal for all the 2,414 and any other eligible persons to apply for SUBEB teaching jobs in relevant subjects to be advertised. *This effectively nullifies the controversial employment process of 2018/2019.*

· This new process will be largely technology-driven, and needs-based, while every applicant will go through rigorous screenings.

· This painful yet necessary decision is built on justice and fairness to everyone, particularly taxpayers and our children whose future depends on the quality of teaching they receive at the elementary schools. It is the right thing to be done in the interest of our education sector which has suffered from years of unhealthy practices as those mentioned above.

· On compassionate grounds, the 594 persons whose salaries were withheld since June 2020 have now had same paid to them immediately while they — and their colleagues covered in the whole process — may reapply to teach relevant subjects when the portal goes live in January 2021.”

Yakub Ali-Agan
Press Secretary
Ministry of Education & Human Capital Development
December 24, 2020

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Aisha Ahman Pategi     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Tanke Road     Facebook     Lanre Aremu     FERMA     Hassan Taiye Salam     Mumeen Lah     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     SGBN     Babaita     Hassan Oyeleke     Sardauna     Akanbi-Oke     CLAY POT     John Olobayo     Curfew     Atiku     Naira Redesign     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Owode Market     Umar Saro     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Saka Keji     CCT     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     AGF Abdulrazaq     Olatunji Ayeni     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Ghali Muhammed     Amos Bajeh     Sarah Jubril     ER-KANG Mining     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Oke-Oyi     JMK Construction Company Limited     Umar Adelodun     Asa     Lawal Jimoh     Baruten     Okin Biscuit     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     African Democratic Congress     TIIDELab     Ileloke     Usman Rifun     Bello Oyebanji     New Model Police Station     GGDSS Pakata     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Damilola Yusuf     March 28     Mohammed Lawal     Pakata Patriots     Kwara TV     Isau     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Ndama Al-hassan     Oloriegbe     Jide Oyinloye     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Orisa Bridge     Yekeen Alabi     Azeez Salawu     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Musbau A. Akanji     Orire     Adewuyi Funmilayo     UTME     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Olatunji Bamgbola     Alfa Belgore     Temitope Ogunbanke     Adeleke Ogungbe     Monthly Sanitation Exercise    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Baboko     Durosinlohun Atiku     Buari Edun     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Abubakar Aliagan     Idris Amosa Saidu     Bureau Of Lands     Bursary     Shagari     Gbenga Olawepo     National Broadcasting Commission     Elerin Of Adanla     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Saliu Tunde Bello     Metro Park     Smart School     Gabriel Fashanu     Bahago     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Nigerian Medical Association     Dagbalodo     Young Progressives Party     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Tunde Oyawoye     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     CKNG     Dele Momodu     Azeez Bello     Inside Kwara     Taofik Mustapha     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Yomi Ogunsola     Guber Aspirant     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Mahee Abdulkadir     Harafat E. Mukadam     Umar Adelodun     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Isin     Mansur Alfanla     Nagode     Wole Oke     Bola Olukoju     Ayedun     Garba Idris Ajia     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     FOMWAN     Baruba     Facebook     Sheriff Shagaya     Michael Nzwekwe     Adedipe     Kunle Okeowo     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Women Radio     Aminat Ahmed     Ishaq Oloyede     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Bibire Ajape     Kwara State Governor     John Mayokun Dada     Umar Danladi Shero     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     NURTW     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Ahmed     National Party Of Nigeria     Toyin Sanusi     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Funmilayo Zubair     Shururat Olatinwo     Mustapha Akanbi     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan