Lackadaisical dispositions and poor work ethics by the ad-hoc teachers recruited by the Esa-Oke Central Union (ECU) to augment the paltry teaching staff deployed to the public schools in the town by both the State and Local governments were largely responsible for the disengagement of some of the teachers., according to the ECU.
Otunba Yinusa Aremu Bamgbiye, Chairman of Esa Oke Central Union (ECU).
Another factor was that the paucity of funds available to the Committee had started impacting negatively on the activities of the ECU and its Education Committee.
www.esaoketodayonline.com learnt authoritatively that since the major donor to the
Teachers Recruitment Fund withdrew his sponsorship, the Committee has been finding it “extremely difficult to meet its monthly financial obligations to the teachers”.
However, www.esaoketodayonline.com learnt that some of the teachers,
numbering about seventeen, have been summarily dismissed by their employers, the ECU.
Our checks revealed that many of the teachers “literarily saw the employment as their share of the national cake coming into the town”.
A source within the system disclosed that many of them hardly came to classes, and when they came, they hardly stayed for long.
It was further learnt that when the reports got to the anonymous major sponsor, he sent some people to go and monitor what was happening in the schools.
The reports he got were very embarrassing. He decided to cut his losses. He has since stopped paying their salaries since December, 2024. But he was said to have donated some hefty sums twice this year when some people pleaded with him.
The ECU leadership too was said to have decided to pay an unscheduled visit to the schools. They too were surprised by the numbers of staff they met on ground.
Of the twenty-four teachers posted to the two secondary schools in the town, they only met eleven, plus the Supervisor. In the primary schools, the situations were not better. Of the seventeen staff, they only met ten.
The seventeen absentees were therefore, summarily dismissed.
According to the Chairman of the ECU, Otunba Yinusa Bamgboye, the instruction given to the teachers when they were employed was that, in case any of them will not be in school, he/she should inform the Supervisor. But none of these seventeen teachers notified the Supervisor before absenting themselves from duty.