Teachers To Forfeit Three Months’ Salary In Rivers Over Posting

Toward ensuring discipline in the basic education management system, the Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board (RSUBEB) has warned that henceforth, any teaching and non-teaching staff, who refuses to accept posting or transfer made for the efficient management of schools in the state would forfiet three months’ salaries.
The Executive Chairman of the board, Ven Fyneface Akah handed down the warning when the paramount ruler and CDC members of Bane community in Khana Local Government Area of the state paid him an advocacy visit in Port Harcourt, over the weekend.
Akah further warned that the sanctions would be extended to indefinite suspension as well as asking the affected staff to refund all the salaries recieved during the period of refusal to comply to the transfer directive.
He opined that refusing transfer, posting or redeployment was an infraction in the civil service, saying that the attitude was an act of deliberate disobidence driven by selfish desires and would be reprimanded.
According to him, the board cannot stand and watch staff’s selfish desires overide the good directives given by the board for the overall interest of the administration toward achievieing set goals.
“In fact, they should pray that it should not lead them to indefinite suspension or be asked to refund all the salaries they recieved when they were found not to have resumed in their new locations”, he stated.
Akah assured the people that the board would look into all their submissions during the meeting, and urged them to protect government projects in their communities, adding that the schools were for the good of their development.
Ealier, the Paramount Ruler of Bua-Bane, Mene D. F. Nwidah, who spoke through the CDC Chairman, Hon Bariere Thomas, had listed their demands to include, among other things, posting of more teachers and repair of broken down school fence.

By: Akujobi Amadi