Abia State government says it has granted employment waiver for the engagement of 90 science teachers in secondary schools across the state.
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, who disclosed this while fielding questions from students during his town hall meeting with teenagers and secondary school students at the Michael Okpara auditorium, Umuahia, said such teachers would resume around September this year, as the first academic term would take off.
He urged teachers recruited to accept postings outside the major cities of the state.
He said his administration would begin the systematic re-equipping of laboratories in schools with the procurement of three mobile laboratories that would visit schools in the three senatorial zones to serve as stop-gap for the absence of laboratories in most secondary schools in the state.
According to Governor Ikpeazu, his administration is collaborating with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to ensure that every student in Abia State receives a tablet (computer).
The governor said his government had started re-tuning schools in the state in terms of infrastructure, and called for all hands to be on deck to mainstream education to enable it take its rightful place.
He expressed displeasure that teachers in the state were being owed salaries, and assured that by December this year no teacher would be owed even as he said that by August this year, salaries of primary school teachers would be cleared.
The Abia governor used the forum to warn students to desist from criminal acts, as anyone caught in stealing, bullying, rape and other anti social activities would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
Chinemenma Umesiaka, special adviser to the governor on teenage matters, thanked the governor for setting the pace and giving teenagers opportunity to interact with him.
