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Allegation Of Misconduct: Ekiti SUBEB Suspends Education Secretary, Head Teacher

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The Chairman of Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi has announced the indefinite suspension of the Education Secretary of Ikere Local Government Education Authority (LGEA), Mr. Gbenro Buraimoh and the Head Teacher of Elemi Community N/P School, Ado Ekiti, Mrs. Olaniyi Catherine over allegations of  misconduct.

Prof. Akinwumi who made the pronouncement in Ado Ekiti, said the decision to suspend the officials became necessary after repeated  warnings to the Education Secretary and the Head Teacher  over  allegations of breaching extant rules of the board.

According to the SUBEB Boss, the Education Secretary was accused of violating the extant rules of the board by  deliberately delaying official matters, irregular appointment of  Teachers of junior ranks into managerial duty posts in schools  as well as granting leave of absence to teachers without recourse to the board and postings of  high number of teachers to schools with low pupils enrollment in farmsteads thereby leading to underutilization of staff.

The Board directed the Education Secretary to hand  over to Dr. Akande Oluwafemi of  the Quality Assurance Department of the Board who is  to take over  as Acting Education Secretary with immediate effect.

The affected education secretary was also  ordered to hand over all government properties in his possession to the Head  of Administration in the LGEA.

In  the same vein ,the suspended Head Teacher, Mrs. Catherine Olaniyi who  was indicted for writing an inflammatory letter to the public, demanding for unauthorized financial assistance towards implementation of an SBMC-SIP project in her  school was ordered to handover all government documents in her possession to the most senior assistant Head Teacher in the school with immediate effect, pending further determination of her case.

Prof. Akinwumi said the board has zero tolerance for anything that could tarnish the good reputation of the state government, stressing that the state Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji is working round the clock to provide enabling teaching/learning environment in the basic education sector.

He re-echoed the free education policy of the state government, adding that government would continue to clamp down on perpetrators  of fraudulent activities in public schools

The Chairman noted that the suspensions would   serve as deterrent to other staff, warning that the board would never condone any act of indiscipline among the SUBEB workforce.

Packaged by Mayowa Owogbade

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