An Ilorin Based lawyer, Jimoh Abdulrasaq, has called on the Federal Government to place teachers in public schools on a special salary structure to improve the quality of their service.
Abdulrasaq disclosed in Ilorin on Friday that the education system in the country was parlous and needed to be improved.
Abdulrasaq noted that the rot was mainly due to the neglect of the teachers who are the drivers of the system in terms of remuneration.
He said placing teachers on special salary structure would motivate them to put more into the job that would lead to improvement of the education sector for better educated Nigerian children.
According to him, when better remunerated, the teachers will concentrate on the job of delivering quality education to the pupils rather than hawking all sorts of things during school hours to make ends meet.
He noted that teachers were not concentrating on their jobs knowing their salary would not take care of their needs and this had seriously affected their performances as they had to look elsewhere to augment their income.
Abdulrasaq blamed the plight of public schools on the indifference of governments and other political leader’s which preferred to neglect their potentials as the future of the nation.
He said that he was surprised at this development knowing that these government officials and politicians attended public schools.
However, he appealed to the government at all levels to equip public schools with necessary teaching and learning aids to right the wrongs done over years of neglect.
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