Reforms: Bayelsa retires 158 post primary schools staff, nets over N500m

The leadership of Bayelsa State Post Primary School Board has recommended the compulsory retirement of about 158 staff of the board based on issues of age falsification and other offences considered contrary to the civil service roles.

The Board also disclosed that it has realised about Five hundred and ninety four million, one hundred and fifty three thousand, six hundred and eighty seven naira, twenty eight kobo as a result of continuous checks of all necessary books such as retirees and death cases.

Executive chairman of the board, Dr Asiam Blessing Ikuru, disclosed this on Wednesday in Yenagoa during a press conference on the state of post primary schools in the state.

She said the staff verification committee put in place by the state government spotted 413 staff cases of records falsifications, and about 158 staff were found culpable.