The governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has approved the recruitment of 3,000 teachers to work in junior and senior secondary schools.
The Project Coordinator, Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment in the state, Ali Gar, stated this on Thursday during a sensitisation meeting on the Girls Scholarship Programme with stakeholders from the Bauchi Local Government.
According to Gar, the move was part of the conditions for the implementation of the AGILE project in the state.
He explained that 2,000 teachers out of the figure would be deployed to junior secondary schools, while the remaining 1,000 would go to senior secondary schools.
He said the move is to breach the pupil and student-teacher ratio gap across the benefiting schools under the project.
Gar emphasized, “The teachers would be under the payroll of the state government and not AGILE Project.
“They would be recruited from the benefiting communities, and this would ensure maximum participation on the side of the teachers, ease access, monitoring, and ensure ownership.”
The AGILE Project Coordinator equally revealed that the project would commence the payment of conditional cash transfers to about 9,000 girls selected and registered as beneficiaries under the project in the next two weeks.
He explained that the conditional cash transfer scheme involved the payment of N15,000 as a registration fee to each of the beneficiaries and N20,000 as a stipend for the first term session.
He added that N10,000 would be paid to them for second and third term sessions respectively with the condition that each beneficiary must have 75 per cent attendance.
Gar, who said all ICT facilities, and skills acquisition tools for the project implementation have been procured, added that officials deployed to various communities were able to capture only 9,000 out of the 20,250 targeted beneficiaries in the past ten weeks.
He appealed to all stakeholders to monitor activities in their respective wards and communities to ensure that teachers perform their duties diligently.
On his part, while reacting to the development, the Executive Chairman, Bauchi Local Government, Mahmood Babama’aji commended the AGILE technical team for its effort toward the implementation of the project.
He expressed optimism in the capacity of all the School Based Management Committee members in delivering on their mandate.
