Benue School System Saturated With Ghost Teachers, Schools – Alia

Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has lamented the state of schools across the state, saying that most of them are saturated with ghost teachers with the entire educational system saturated with ghost schools. Governor Alia disclosed this during an interface with Benue people in the diaspora, where he also faulted his predecessor, Samuel Ortom, on the merger of the state’s School of Nursing and Midwifery with the state university.

The governor said when he took over from his predecessor; he was able to save N1.2 billion from ghost teachers. “We went further and it was discovered that it was not only ghost teachers that exist; but ghost schools as well.

And the least we found was that the ghost schools had 95 ghost teachers and the minimum grade level of the teachers at those schools was Grade Level 10. “Just imagine how much they packed, and if we unveil to you those who have been involved in this corrupt system, you will be so shocked to hear names. Yet, this has been going on and on for ages.”

He called for investment in the educational sector, stressing that his administration intends to go back to the basics by granting independence to missionary schools, reintroducing more vocational centres across the state to enable the students acquire skills, as well as intensifying training for the teachers. According to him, what was on ground upon his assumption of office was terrible.

He said: “We met the Benue system in comatose, but that of education was even worse and we are just trying to reinvent our educational system, with the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) already geared with programmes to reinvent the educational sector in the state”.