The Osun State Government has attributed the delay in the conclusion of the teachers‘ recruitment exercise to the non-release of the local government allocations by the federal government. The commissioner for Education, Dipo Eluwole, disclosed at the opening session of a training programme held for teachers and heads of public schools in the state.
Eluwole said the money to be used to recruit teachers was being spent on payment of primary school teachers, local government workers, health workers, and five percent to traditional rulers. “The money we are supposed to be using for these things is what we are using to pay primary school teachers, local government workers, health workers, and five percent to traditional rulers.
“Osun State education is now a force to be reckoned with today, we are making Nigeria proud, unlike before,” Eluwole said. Everybody is taking their money as when due. That’s why we don’t have more teachers in schools.