Following the shortfall of monthly allocation from the federation account, Edo State government said it would carry out verification exercise of all teaching staff in primary and secondary schools in the state.
The government decision was contained in a press statement made available to newsmen in Benin City by John Mayaki, chief press secretary to Governor Obaseki on Sunday.
He said the head of service of Akoko-Edo Local Government Council of the state, Tom Ebhotemen, made the state government position known while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the Joint Allocation Committee (JAC) meeting held in Benin City at the weekend.
Ebhotemen said the decision was to ensure that teachers that were paid salaries were really on ground.
According to Ebhotemen, we also at this meeting resolved that because of the very large chunk of money that goes for teachers salaries to carry out a verification exercise on schools to ensure that teachers that are paid salaries are really on ground.
He also said the resolution was to discourage indolence, fraud and fast track the monitoring and evaluation of staff performance at their primary place of assignments.
The sum of N1.27 billion has been devoted for the payment of November 2016 salaries of public schools teachers in the state, he said, adding that the money was deducted from the mandatory N1.88billion.
