A committee to remove all irregularities in the e-payment of teachers’ salaries in Nasarawa State has uncovered the names of 78 Local Education Authority Teachers in a single bank account.
The Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board had set up the committee to stop irregularities and abnormalities that impede the success of e-payment and ensure that primary school teachers were paid on time.
Briefing the Executive Chairman of the Board, Alhaji Abdulkarim Abdullahi, on Friday in Lafia, the Chairman of the committee, Abdul Sale, said the e-payment system was imperative to check corrupt practices.
Sale said: “Our mandate is to ensure that all the irregularities and abnormalities, which usually lead to delay in the payment of primary school teachers in the state should be discovered with a view to address such challenges.
“E-payment is very imperative.
“This is because it fights corruption, ghost workers and other abnormalities in any system as well as improving workers and teachers’ welfare and ensure their commitment to impact knowledge on pupils and students.”
Sale said that the Board had directed the committee to pay teachers salaries as at when due and even before any civil servant receives his or her own salary in the state, adding: “Sir, as you can see, the committee members, together with the staff of Diamond Bank, for the past seven to eight weeks now had been verifying the account name and numbers of each LGEA teacher to ensure that the aims and objectives of the committee were achieved.”
He said that committee had discovered many problems associated with the system, adding that most of the teachers that had problems with their salaries were those with either wrong or multiple account numbers.
He added: “You will discover that two or three teachers are with the same account number.
“As I am telling you now, there are 78 primary school teachers with one account number in the state.
“The e-payment system can be completely successful if we carry out biometric verification exercise for all primary school teachers in the state.”
Sale pledged that the committee will uncover all irregularities and abnormalities in order to improve on the standard of education in the state for the benefit of all.
Speaking earlier, Abdullahi said the aim of the visit was to assess the level of success the committee had recorded.
He said: “The committee was given the mandate to ensure that primary school teachers are paid before any other civil servant in the state through the e-payment system.
“This is done to ensure that the standard of education is improved in the state and the country at large.”
Abdullahi assured the committee that the Board was committed to a relentless war against persons who sabotage government’s effort to improve the standard of education in the state.
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