One hundred teachers who left their working posts without giving any explanation have had their wages suspended by the Katsina State Government.  

This was revealed in Katsina on Wednesday during the unveiling of a joint education sector coordination committee by Hajiya Zainab Musawa, the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education.  

The ministry, along with UNICEF, established the committee to support the state's development and execution of education policy.  The commissioner voiced grave worries about certain instructors' attitudes, stating that the government and other relevant parties would not tolerate them.

“I have visited about 20 schools in Katsina, and there is no school where I met 60 per cent of the teachers on the ground.

“So, we are actually here to look at the issues of education and try to bring solutions,” the commissioner said.

Musawa gave the example of a state government teacher who quit his job and moved to another state, where he continued to work and receive pay.  

She claims that all of the evidence is easily accessible and that the teacher has been absent from that school for the past two years.

“We’re talking about the mindset of the people in the education system, the parents, children, teachers, and the school administrators; it’s not just the government.

“In the ministry of education, I have more than 100 teachers that we have stopped their salaries as of today.

“If you go to the ministry at this very moment, you‘ll see teachers rolling and begging for their salaries to be paid because they cannot afford to lose July, August, and September salaries.

“But when they absconded, they had forgotten that holidays would come, and they didn’t know that the monitoring department would go and monitor,” Musawa said.

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