We’ll recruit 1,000 teachers, initiate volunteer teaching scheme, says Gov. Shettima 

The  Borno state Governor, Hon. Kashim Shettima  has said that the state government has concluded arrangement to recruit 1000 qualified teachers into the state’s civil Service and also engage hundreds of volunteer teachers to teach at the state’s Primary and Secondary schools,.

Governor Shettima, who disclosed this said  most of the existing teachers are incompetent and found it very difficult to inculcate knowledge to the younger ones.

He said, despite the security challenges facing the state, coupled with the little resources at its disposal, government was able to build over 40 Model schools, equipped with digital Information and Communication Technology facilities across the state,.

He further stressed  that, there is  need to recruit new hands into the payroll of the State Civil Service, including himself and many more who have indicated interest to volunteer and teach free of charge in order to compliment the efforts of the old hands in addressing the brain drain.

It could be recalled that  Shettima  was at one time a Lecturer at the University of Maiduguri before he joined the banking industry and later  politics and became governor in 2011.

Shettima said,  as his tenure constitutionally expires in May next year, he was willing or desperate to be part of the Volunteer Teachers in the state which will soon be initiated, in addition to the recruitment of 1000 competent teachers under his administration.

 “I want to state that, the blind cannot teach the blind, most of our teachers are incompetent, and cannot teach our students the way it is supposed to be. We must look for the competent hands to replace those malnourished and  teach our upcoming younger ones, because education is a key to peaceful society and development.”, Shettima said.

“I want to thank you (Professor Njodi) and your entourage for this Sallah visit which is going to be the last for me as governor, as you are all aware that my tenure expires in May next year,” he added..

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“Despite the insurgency in the the state in the last 7 to 10 years, this administration was able to face the challenges head on, the whole mantra of Boko Haram is lack of western education, apart from reconstructing our destroyed schools and construction of new ones, we have built over 40 Mega Schools across the state and our state university is about to take off before the end of this year. And we are ever determined to resist any external forces that will bring us back,” he further stressed.

He said “I want to tell you that some of my Borno contemporaries who are well to do, and even own airlines, have not in our trying moment identified with us or assisted our millions of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs with even one measure of rice or Gari, but they are the ones that are coming to claim superiority in dictating who will be my successor,” Shettima said.

Earlier in his sallah message, Professor Njodi said they were at the Government House to felicitate with the Government and people of the state for the Eid -El Kabir Sallah celebration, and therefore commended the governor for his support to UNIMAID, especially in the area of security, provision of accommodation to students among other interventions.

Njodi also said, the institution is willing to partner with the state government in addressing the brain drain in the state.