Bayelsa State Government to Commence Funding of Primary Education

The Bayelsa State Government has  now vowed to commence the funding of  primary school education to halt to the ongoing strike by the teachers in the state.

This came during the handing over ceremony of the outgoing Commissioner of Education, Mr Martin's Fefegha to the new commissioner of Education,  Mr Obuebite, Thursday,  in Yenogoa.

For more than six weeks, the teachers in public primary schools have been on strike and have promptly refused to resume their posts even at the start of a fresh academic calendar citing non parents of 10 month salary arrears to be the cause of their grievances.

Fefegha also said that the State Governments move to take up the funding of the primary Education is the constitutional responsibility of the Local Government which now have less than enough to uphold their duty.

He was quick to also reveal that the State governments check on the revenue space of the councils were not enough to meet up with the salary demands of the primary school teachers which had lead to an enormous mountain of unpaid salaries.

Fefegha has now been moved to the Ministry of mineral resources.

At the concise Event, Obuebite said the government had declared a state of emergency in the education sector and had splurged in about N55 billion towards it's revival since 2012. Also bringing to bare the commitment of the state government to place a higher priority to the education sector.

He promised that his tenure would focus extensively on the teachers welfare and capacity building while assuring of the state governments mandate to clear the heap of unpaid salaries owed to school teachers in state.