By Andrew Ojih, Jalingo.
The Chairman of the Taraba state chapter of the Academic Union of Secondary School (ASUSS), Comrade Tanko Danjuma on Friday said the Union and the Federal Mortgage Bank had gone into partnership to build over three hundred and fifty housing Units for Secondary School Teachers in the state.
Tanko, who stated this while speaking with journalists in Jalingo hinted that Asuss have acquired over two hundred hectares of land from the state government for the housing projects.
“Our decision to get into partnership with Federal Mortgage Bank to build three hundred and fifty houses for our Secondary School Teachers was because we want every teachers at the end of retirement own a befitting house.
Though, the Federal Mortgage Bank use to deduct money from Secondary School Teachers salary at the end of every month with the aim of allowing them acess loan.
When we discovered that our teachers were not really acessing loans, we approached the Bank and requested to give us details of the money they have taken from teachers or we approach court.
After our visit to the bank, some weeks ago, we got a call from the head office of Mortgage Bank in Abuja and requested the Union to aquire land so as they can come in to build houses for our teachers.
We immediately swung into action and quickly got land clossed to where the 4 Division Nigerian Army is situated along Wukari raod to enable Federal Mortgage Bank and Asuss start the process” he said.
Tank who said committed teachers would be rewarded hinted that the Union was in talk with the state government to ensure teachers who rose to level seventeen (17) in civil service be appointed as permanent secretaries.
“I still want to tell our Secondary School Teachers working in rural areas that security will provided to enable them do their job.
As a Union, we have approached the Commissioner of Police and lodged a complain over the insecurity in some villages in Taraba and he assured that Police will be deployed to prevent teachers from being attacked” he stressed.
He applauded governor Agbu Kefas over his support for Secondary School Teachers and payment of WAEC, NECO and NABTEB across the three hundred and fifty Secondary Schools in Taraba.
He noted that Secondary School Teachers will reciprocate by voting for him massively come 2027.