Edema inaugurates 12-man Primary School Staff Audit Committee

The Chairman of Warri South Local Government, Hon. Matthew Mofe Edema has inaugurated a 12-man audit committee to screen primary school staff in Warri South Local Government Area, with a view to fishing out ghost workers and blocking leakages in the system.

Hon. Edema while inaugurating the committee Thursday October 8, 2015 at his office in the Council’s Main Secretariat in Warri, cautioned the members not to hide anyone aiding ghost workers or other forms of financial irregularities in the primary school administration in Warri South.

He tasked members of the committee drawn from the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, the local branch of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Warri South Local Education Authority, LEA and the political class in the council, to lay emphasis on the payroll of the teachers from October through December 2014 and July to September 2015.

According to the Warri South Council boss, preliminary work by a consultant hired by his administration has been able to reduce the monthly deduction for primary school teachers’ salary from N137 million to N123 million and enjoined members of the committee to brace up to the task of cleaning up any possible rot in primary schools in the local government.

The committee which is chaired by an Assistant Director of Administration, Warri South Local Government Council, Mrs. Diokpala Teresa Ngozi, has the Principal Information Officer of Warri South Local Government Council, Mr. Metsese Anthony Ebule as Secretary. Other members of the committee include Secretary to Warri South Local Government, Hon. Bawo Alex Nana, Deputy Leader of Warri South Legislative Arm, Hon. Richard Pessu, Deputy Majority Leader of Warri South Legislative Arm, Hon. Ogheneochuko Eyekpimi, the Warri South Council Supervisor for Education, Linda Eya Ikpuri, Chairman of NULGE Warri South, Comrade Godfrey Affor Maku, Secretary of Local Education Authority, Warri South Local Government, Hon. Wilson Eyimofe Omor, Warri South Local Government Council Internal Auditor, Mr. Alexander Mejebi Oyen, Secretary of Warri-South Chapter of Nigerian Union of Teachers, Comrade Eruebi Oduore, Treasurer of the Union, Comrade Omagbemi Gladys and the Chairman of NUT, Warri South Local Government, Comrade Ishmael Ukuejawa.

Responding on behalf of other members, the Committee Chairman, Mrs. Diokpala Teresa Ngozi, thanked the Warri South Council boss for the opportunity to serve and promised that members of the committee will not disappoint the trust reposed in them, stating that they will work as a team in line with the mandate to streamline the administrative as well as financial administration of primary schools in Warri South Local Government Area.        

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