Zamfara State Teachers Service Board has disengaged the services of 109 non-indigenous teachers employed on contract basis.
Chairman of the Board, Alhaji Muhammad Aliyu Anka, said that the non-indigenous teachers were disengaged following the expiration of their contract.
According to him, after 109 teachers were disengaged, 96 of them wrote to the board, complaining that there was miscarriage of justice in the disengagement, and the board constituted a verification committee.
“After the verification, 41 of them were recommended to the Governor for reengagement, which the Board is waiting for the governor’s approval,” Anka added.
He said that after the disengagement, the Board declared 500 vacancies but over 11,000 people applied, saying that the Board needs teachers who can teach science subjects, not art subjects, because the State has indigenous teachers who can teach art subjects.
The chairman further explained that the rule remains that if the contract is due to expire in six months, the indigenous teacher has to write to the board if he or she wants to renew his or her contract.
“But most of them didn’t write to the board, and the management of the board assumed that they didn’t want renewal.
“Besides that, most of the non-indigenous teachers were not working but were collecting salaries, while others were teaching in private schools and were collecting salaries from the state government without working,” he said.
This medium gathered that 79 of the disengaged non-indigenous teachers have been lamenting that they were disengaged without any tangible reason.