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The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has finally flagged off the already announced bio-attendance system and verification exercise in Imo state with a full assurance that none of the verified teachers will be owed salaries anymore.
He also teased the exercise by saying that they will not also suffer the incessant lack of promotion after working hard under his tenure.
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The governor spoke yesterday at the Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu Stadium Owerri where he supervised the collation of data – registration and image capturing of secondary school teachers and non-teaching staff of the secondary School management in Imo State from the 27 local government areas.
Addressing them before the verification that was coordinated by the staff of the Imo State Data Centre, Governor Uzodimma had also noted that the exercise became necessary to ensure that teachers receive their salaries every month and get their promotions that have lingered since 2014.
Uzodimma called the attention of the teachers to the abuse of postings linked to some of them and warned against rejection of postings to any school in the State, especially postings to the rural areas except on verifiable health grounds or marital status
He told the teachers and their heads that they were invited to be physically verified and their image captured preparatory to final nominal roll that will be used for their monthly salaries and for promotion purposes.
Governor Uzodimma who also acknowledged the shortage of teachers in the state secondary schools assured that as soon as the nominal roll of teachers is streamlined new ones will be employed.
In his remarks, the commissioner for education, Prof. Sylvester Okorondu, told the governor that the secondary school teachers and staff of SEMB from the three zones of the State had gathered for capturing and for government to know their actual number which will help to streamline their monthly payments, promotions and eventually, retirement.
