News: Benue State Government to Recruit 5,000 Graduate Teachers & 400 Tax Collectors

Makurdi-Benue State Government, yesterday said over 5,000 Primary School Teachers would be employed before the end of 2019 to fill the vacuum to be created by the soon to retire 2,000 teachers.

Governor Samuel Ortom who disclosed this while inaugurating Chairman and members of the newly reconstituted State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, said unemployed Benue youths would benefit from the initiative.

He said “government would engage unemployed graduates to teach in primary schools across the state as away of reducing the high rate of unemployment especially amongst our youths.”

While frowning at the recurrent cases of dead and ghost teachers drawing salaries from government coffers, Governor Ortom urged the new board to end the menace by thoroughly cleansing the board.

In his charge to the board members he said, “you have a mandate to restore the lost glory of primary education in the State. Our intention has always been to make primary education the strongest.

“So the task of eliminating ghost teachers and ghost schools from the system should be your priority. Your must work as a team and do not hesitate to raise alarm if the Chairman is derailing. I urge you to ensure transparency and accountability in the discharge of your responsibilities,” he advised.

The Governor also harped on the need to shore up the Internally Generated Revenue of the state by announcing the immediate disengagement of revenue consultants in the state adding that about 400 graduates would soon be employed by the government to generate revenue for the state.

“These revenue consultants were collecting revenue but remitting only 10 percent to the state government while 90 percent went into their pockets. We are recruiting graduates as tax collectors to reduce unemployment in the state.”

Source: Vanguard