Fraud: Bayelsa Education Board Recommends 272 for Retirement

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By Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa

Following a staff audit of schools in Bayelsa State, the State Post-Primary School Board, has recommended the compulsory retirement of at least 272 members of staff due to various infractions discovered during the screening exercise.

Executive Chairman of the board, Blessing Ikuru, who addressed journalists in Yenagoa, on the extent of the clean-up ordered by Governor Seriake Dickson, noted that a total number of 413 cases of falsification of records involving under-declaration of age and questionable letters of first appointments were reviewed.

The meeting was attended by zonal directors, principals and leadership of the major trade unions that operate in secondary schools system.

She added that after the verification, 141 were cleared and 158 staff recommended for immediate retirement, while a further 114…



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