Dickson Orders 700 Workers To Classroom

Bayelsa State Government has ordered immediate redeployment
of about 700 graduates working in the State Sanitation Authority to schools as
teachers.

Governor Dickson,  who
stated this while addressing teachers in the
state during the celebration of International Day for Teachers, said he
saw no reasons why so many graduates would be employed in an organisation,
which its workforce are supposed to be mainly first school leaving certificate
holders.

The governor, who used the occasion to announce that
government will commence the distribution of 150,000 pairs of free school
uniforms and other educational materials including textbooks to all public
primary and secondary schools in the state described teachers as critical to
the actualization of his administration’s educational policies and pledged to
continually support teachers to perform their duties effectively.

The governor posited that for society to be better, deserved
attention should be given to its teachers.

Hon Dickson directed the state commissioner for works to
approve contract for the construction of a link road to the Teachers House in
Yenagoa which serves as the secretariat of the state council of the Nigeria
Union of Teachers.

The governor also asked the NUT executive to liaise with the
transport commissioner for the release of an operational vehicle he had earlier
promised the union.

On remuneration, the state Chief  Executive urged teachers to acknowledge the
fact that they rank among the best remunerated teachers in the country and
directed the commissioner for education, head of service and the state chairman
of NUT to meet on the issue of promotion as well as yearly incremental arrears
and make recommendations for his consideration.

Governor Dickson, who congratulated the teachers on their
successful completion of a two-week training workshop, assured them of
government’s preparedness to implement its policy on human capacity building.