Yobe gov’t to deduct 10% civil servants salaries to boost education
The Yobe State government said it will deduct 10 per cent of November basic salaries of its civil servants so they can contribute to the current efforts to revive the education sector in the state.
This was revealed by the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture Muhammad Lamin on Monday in Damaturu.
The Commissioner said that the decision was taken in order to ginger collective action to revive the education sector which has been dilapidated due to the age-long insurgency that has ravaged the state and the entire Northeast region.
He noted that the decade-long insurgency had impacted negatively on the entire lives of the citizenry, as well as the educational system and structures in the state.
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Earlier, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni had on November 9, 2021, inaugurated a 21-member State Education Appeal Fund Raising Committee to mobilise funds to revitalise the education sector.
“Apart from reaching out to people outside government, we feel that civil servants in the state should also give their modest contribution to the programme, by contributing 10 per cent of their November basic salary.
“By this briefing, therefore, civil servants are informed that the deduction will be for only the month of November 2021.
“In this regard, the government is appealing to civil servants in the state to heartily support the government in her bid to rescue our state from the catastrophe of educational decay,” he said.
Recalled that Governor Mai Mala Buni has declared a state of emergency on education throughout the state so as to fight illiteracy and to also change the wrong ideology of the Boko Haram insurgents.
