Taraba: Syndicates offer teaching appointment at N300, 000

Syndicates are now offering teaching appointment letters to unemployed persons at the cost of N300, 000 per person in Taraba state.

The Executive Secretary of Taraba State Primary Education Board, Mr. Yakuba Agbaizu who disclosed this during a press briefing in Jalingo yesterday, alleged that the syndicates were working in connivance with some staff of the board.

“They are now offering appointment letters to unsuspecting persons in the state and collecting money ranging from N300, 000 and above,” he said.

Mr. Yakubu Agbaizu said the syndicates had also forged his signature, making it difficult to differentiate between fake and genuine appointment letters.

He advised those seeking teaching appointment to stay away from such persons offering employment adding that the board wass not recruiting teachers now

He said there were also ghost teachers now in the pay roll of the board and effort was being made to flush them out, explaining that there was a primary school in Kona Village where the head teacher claimed to have 17 teaching staff, but during inspection only three teachers were found.

The executive secretary further stated that it was later discovered 42 teachers were on the pay roll of that school.

He accused education secretaries and some account staff in the Board of conniving with head teachers in running a cartel and making millions of Naira from ghost teachers.

“The activities of the syndicates is frustrating efforts of the board trying to flush out ghost teachers’’ he said.

Mr Agbaizu disclosed that the syndicate are also running ghost schools and collecting salaries for such schools.

According to him the syndicate take advantage of difficult terrain of the state to put names of non existing schools in the system of the board

“There are schools with teachers in the pay roll of the board but in reality, such schools never exist and the syndicates are taking advantage of difficult terrain of some parts of the state to commit such acts,” Mr Agbaizu said.

He said apart from the biometric carried out with the aim of flushing out ghost teachers and ghost primary schools, the board would soon embark on physical screening of teachers as well as inspection of all existing schools in the state.