Taraba govt commends Buhari over N-power programme

The President Muhammadu Buhari’s led federal government has been called upon to give permanent appointments to the trainers of the Federal Government N-power programmes across the Country.

The Taraba State Commissioner of Education, Mr. Johanes Jigem who commended the federal government for initiating the programme, stated this in Jalingo during a train the Trainer’s Workshop for the State beneficiaries of the Programme.

“I want to thank the Federal Government for this gesture; I want to also say that, after somebody must have spent two years in this programme, government should give him or her permanent appointment.

“Due to the experience already acquired, we are pleading on the federal government to give them a permanent appointment; it will go a long way”, he said.

Johanes Jigem further noted that the Taraba State Government is also running a similar programme called the Rescue Teachers.

According to him, the Rescue Teacher’s programme is different from the Federal Government’s N-power because the state government has already agreed on giving the Teachers permanent appointment.

The Commissioner added that the recent recruitment of about 3,000 Teachers by the State Government has added value in the State’s education sector.

In his remarks, the Taraba State Coordinator, N-power, Mr. Ezekiel Shehu Bagudu said, the Programme is important because the Trainers are going back to the various Adult Education Centres across the State to teach the adults and those that didn’t pass through formal Education.

He added that President Muhammadu Buhari deserves commendation for fulfilling a promise of absorbing about 200 people for N-power in the State and the current beneficiaries of about 300,000 that have been absorbed.

“We have to commend Mr. President because he promised each of them N30,000.00 and the money has landed”,

“Some of them have started benefitting”, he added.