Teachers Applaud Fubara Over Promotion Directives

Some senior secondary school teachers in Rivers State have commended the State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, over his directives to the newly reconstituted State Senior Secondary School Education Board (SSSEB) to begin the promotion of senior secondary school teachers who have not been promoted for over 12 years.
They described the gesture by the State Government as a welcome development, saying it will spur them to be more committed and dedicated to their duties.
In an interview with The Tide over the weekend in Port Harcourt, Mr. Chibuzor Hemen, a teacher in one of the secondary schools in the state, commended the State Governor for the directive, adding that the move has a far reaching impact on the teachers and the society at large.
He said for over twelve years they were employed by the previous administration of Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, they have remained in that same level of their first appointment and added that the teachers in this category will ever remain greateful to the Executive Governor of the state for remembering them.
Also speaking, a female teacher in one of the girls secondary schools in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, who gave her name as Mrs. Blessing, expressed appreciation to the State Governor for this pronouncement, saying that the Governor has in his magnanimity raised senior secondary school teachers from the state of abandonment to upliftment.
She promised that the teachers will ever remain committed to his cause and support him at all times, noting that the teachers can be like their counterparts in the state.
She, however, called on the Board to immediately begin the process of the promotion exercise to ensure that the exercise can be concluded before the resumption of schools in September.

By: Akujobi Amadi