By IBRAHIM KANOMA – Gusau
Zamfara State Government has employed additional 110 teachers to take the students extra lessons, inorder to cover the period schools were shutdown in the state.
The state Commissioner of Information, Hon. Ibrahim Magaji Dosara made this known to journalists during a press conference at the Government House in Gusau, the state capital.
He said the state has 200 schools, and the teachers would be deployed to various schools for their primary assignment.
When asked if the 110 newly teachers employed by the government for extra lessons would be adequate to cover the number of schools in the state, he said that they were employed for a purpose.
According to the Commissioner of Information, the schools were ordered to reopen after consultations with the security experts who he said promised to deploy more security operatives to various schools in the state.
“We did not reopen the schools on our own without consulting the security experts because they guided us”
Lamenting that not all the schools in the state were authorize to reopen, stressing that the insecurity situation in some areas of the state made it impossible to reopen schools in the affected areas.
Shading more lights on the school opening, the permanent secretary, ministry of Education, Alhaji Kabiru Atahiru said, the 200 schools have been classified in to three categories.
According to him, category one consist of 85 Schools are classified as red ,and 75 schools are classified as green while the remaining 40 schools are classified as yellow.
“In this case, we only opened yellow and green schools, and we shall send them the employed teachers to assist them, but the red schools would not be opened until when the security situation improves in the affected” Kabiru explains.
The permanent secretary when asked to provide the number of teachers they have, he said he could not remember the number of teachers in the state, saying that he would make the number available to newsmen.
