The ongoing comprehensive verification exercise embarked upon by the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has been described as a unique and reliable method to ascertain the correct data of Secondary School Staff in the State.
The Chairman of Ekiti State Teaching Service Commission, Hon Babatunde Abegunde made the assertion while addressing secondary school workers from Efon and Ekiti West Local Government Areas who converged at Aramoko District Commercial Grammar School (ADICO), Aramoko-Ekiti for the verification exercise.
Honourable Abegunde, explained that the verification exercise was cost effective in the sense that it could detect what biometric pay system may not capture particularly staff who might abscond from his or her duty post.
The Chairman who commended the commitment of the State government for paying arrears of salary described the State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi as the most worker friendly Governor in Ekiti State.
He assured the workers that government is making arrangements to recruit more teaching and non-teaching staff to fill the existing vacancies adding that the team was out to reconfirm the number of vacancies and to correct the existing data. The Chairman, who noted that there had been lopsidedness in the distribution of staff, said that teachers would henceforth be deployed, irrespective of geographical location to areas where their services would be mostly needed across the state. In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary TESCOM, Mr. Ayodele Ajimati advised the teachers to cooperate with the officers in charge of the verification exercise, noting that the exercise is purely to for data verification and nothing else as being pedled around by dissidents.
Responding the Principal Aramoko District Commercial Grammar School, Mr. Tayo Omirin lauded the efforts of the government on the verification exercise which he described as a welcome development.
He explained that the exercise which is to ascertain the total no of teachers in the state should be repeated every two years. The Principal advised the teachers to cooperate, comport themselves in orderly manners and render their documents and information in the most accurate manner without any falsification whatsoever.
Princess Ajayi,
Principal Information Officer,
Teaching Service Commission