The Station Manager, Imo State Data Management Centre (state secretariat), Michael Chima Nwaribe, says the data verification exercise carried out by the government through the ministry of education will largely determine promotion, salary of real primary and secondary school teachers in Imo State.
He revealed that there are a lot of ghost primary and secondary teachers who lack the basic skills to teach the pupils and students who receive salaries promptly and better than real teachers who perform optimally hence the need for the open data verification exercise.
The Station Manager, Imo State Data Management Center, disclosed this while addressing the teachers during the primary school teachers’ data verification exercise held at the Admiral Kanu Ndubuisi Square, Owerri, last week.
He disclosed that the teachers were verified to know their letter of employment, confirmation in order to ascertain their accurate data or numerical strength and thereby identify those who are real and fake teachers, adding that the measure will also determine their promotion and salaries, saying the data verification exercise was compulsory for all teachers in that category, remarking that no real teacher would be left out or shortchanged nor deny promotion or salary.
“The data verification exercise is a welcome development and a good step taken by the Imo State Government who deemed it fit for primary and secondary school teachers to come out en masse for their data verification and capturing targeted at knowing number of authentic teachers, those who are present with their requisite qualifications to teach. And we thank them for coming out in their numbers to grace the Governor’s call. Although we had a little challenge which is good number of primary school teachers who are being captured after verification as real teachers”, Nwaribe maintained.
Admonishing the teaches to keep teaching the pupils well so that they imbibe good knowledge that can help them excel excellently in life, Supervisor of the exercise, Daberechi Mbamara, hinted that all the teachers in the 27 local government areas of Imo State effectively participated in the data verification exercise which was thrown open, having lasted for a day, thanking the state government led by Governor Hope Uzodimma for the feat which he described as germane as such would go a long way to exposing ghost primary and secondary school teachers who collect salaries without any due performance.
