In order to ensure 100% teaching effectiveness, sustaining the existing free education programme in Imo state, Governor Rochas Okorocha announced the employment of 2,000 teachers on Wednesday.
Okorocha disclosed this during a launch of special programme tagged: “No Teachers, No School” programme held at the Heroes Square, Owerri, intended to realise the state’s educational goal.
The governor justified his action, stating that the number of students in the state has increased geometrically from 470,000 to 1million due to the introduction of free education in the state.
He however assured his administration’s commitment to ensure that free qualitative education declared at all level in the state does not only succeed but be sustained.
Furthermore, Okorocha approved N10,000 dressing allowance for each newly-employed teacher, adding that lateness to school, absence from work and failure to prepare lesson notes is forbidden in the state henceforth.
He also announced that any teacher who is regularly absent from school without due permission would be surcharged N10,000, while lateness would attract a N5,000 surcharge.
Commenting, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Adaobi Obasi said, “It is heart- warming that Okorocha has proven that education is power and that it is through qualitative and functional education that societies can develop and families liberate themselves from cyclic poverty and hence the individuals empowered to attain their full potentials.”
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