Governor El-Rufa’i, fulfil the promise you made to primary school teachers now -By Muhammad Umar Shehu & Dangana Henry Joseph

Newly recruited primary school teachers and the old ones in Kaduna were so happy in the year 2018 when the governor promised them of good packages such as good welfare and building houses for the teachers who at times when transferred to rural areas would not want to because of the nature of such places.

It is more than four years now since such promised was made, but the situation remain unchanged as the governor was not able to redeemed his promises to the primary school teachers in Kaduna state.

This can be said to be unbecoming of a leader who is supposed to fulfil everything said for the betterment of the state.

In his quest toward making Kaduna great again, not only infrastructural development but the welfare of primary school teachers should also be a priority of the government.

Also worthy of note is the issues of late payment of primary school teachers salaries in Kaduna state, this has put so many of them into difficult situation , this cause as a result of dalliance in payment of their salaries.

As a result of the late payment of salaries some of the primary school teachers cannot even pay their debt and cannot plan well, because before the late salaries are paid they have already collected a lot of debts, so when they gets their salaries they only ended in settling part of their debts and carry the rest over to the subsequent months.

And with the current economic reality on ground, what an average primary school teacher is collecting cannot even sustain them till the end of the month, talk more of even saving something for the future.

Am with cocksure to say that, great leaders have the discernment to give their team the liberty to fabricate greater work for-why it make no sense to enlist the best and interfere or micromanage their work. So we deemed it fit to called unto the authorities in charge to pleases and fulfil their promises made to the primary school teachers.

There fore to write your name in gold in the hearts of this primary school teachers, the governor should fulfil his promises to the primary school teachers and also ensure that they are paid on time just as other civil servants in the state are paid .

Having done well in other sectors in the state, the governor should also do well in the primary schools in the state by providing the schools with effective and sufficient learning materials, so that it would aid learning process.

Also the governor should includes incentives that would boast the morale of the primary school teachers, so that they can feel secure and comfortable in discharging their duties.

By so doing, primary school teachers in the state would not have the interest and desire of leaving the job for another one once there is an advertisement on the national dailies.

As a leader, if you want to erect a great company, at first you have to create an environment where someone can raise their hand and say “I disagree” without any panic of dismissal, victimisation or short-changed. So this is a high time that Kaduna state Government should at least fulfil some of the promises made to the primary school teachers.

This is so , because they would feel that there is job satisfaction and no need of changing it for another. Also they would give in their best when they have a permanent and pensionable job, which when they retired they can start small scale business with their pensions and gratuity.

When all the aforementioned is handled and taking care of, the state would witness an outburst in the primary school sector in the state.

It would be recalled that the governor of Kaduna state and the then commission of education in the state at different forum in January 2018 make so many promises to the newly recruited primary school teachers,

The governor who has performed excellently in other sectors in the state which has received a lot of commendation from within and outside the state and the nation, can also do the same to teachers in the state, especially the primary school teachers.

Dangana Henry Joseph and Muhammad Umar Shehu
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