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 in 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.
