From David Adenuga Bauchi
The Bauchi State Ministry of Education has introduced a fingerprint device to put the menace of ghost workers, absenteeism and nonchalant attitude of workers under check.
According to the state Commissioner for Education, Dr. Aliyu Usman Tilde, in Bauchi, the device will enable workers clock in and out of their duty posts and qualify them for their monthly salaries.
Tilde, who lamented the nonchalant attitude of teachers before his appointment, said about 53.5 per cent of workers were fond of shunning their work and such development has affected the state’s education sector.
“We now have the device in all the 219 secondary schools under the ministry. We have had a case of a teacher who only attended his school seven times in 11 years and when I came in, I requested for attendance register of various schools and the statistics there was not encouraging at all, 53.5 per cent of them (teachers) do not go to their work place at all.
“People are now less honest than before and given their large number, many of them can hide, a lot of them are in the rural areas where it is difficult to reach them for monitoring and evaluation.
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You find out that by the time you take up their attendance book, everyone is present and resumed work before 8:am even if he or she wasn’t there.
“It is very difficult to monitor these large number of workers, the best thing is to introduce technology. With this you will be able to capture all the teachers within your purview; if anyone goes in, delivers a lesson or checks out it will be clocked by the terminal.
With this, I have been able to monitor in my office when my teachers resume, deliver lessons and go out of school,” he said.
Tilde added that there would be cut off mark for attendance and any worker below the mark would not receive alert for the month.
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