By; SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has finally allocated the magnificent 24 furnished houses his administration built and was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark 2022 World Humanitarian Day recently in Maiduguri located at Bulumkutu Abuja area of Maiduguri metropolis.
It would be recalled that the teachers quarters at Bulumkutu along old Jos Road is one of the over 600 capital projects executed by the governor in his first tenure of office.
Borno State Government allocated the fully furnished 24 units of the houses to primary school teachers from Maiduguri and Jere Local Education Authority (LEA) during a brief ceremony on Wednesday at the quarters.
Engr. Lawan Abba Wakilbe, Borno State Commissioner for Education, while handing over the houses to beneficiaries, disclosed that Borno Government has constructed similar edifices in Banki Town of Bama Local Government area and Mafa.
He also said Zulum’s administration will extend such projects to other local government areas in order to provide accommodation for hardworking teachers in the LGAs.
The commissioner further added that beneficiaries were selected based on merit from different schools within the vicinity of the quarters.
He charged teachers to take good care of the facility as it is an institutional property.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Housing and Energy, Engr. Yuguda Saleh Vungas, whose ministry constructed the quarters, while handing over the keys to the Honourable Commissioner for Education for onward allocation to teachers, disclosed that the houses consist of 12 units each of fully furnished two bedroom apartments, a living room, kitchen and two self contained toilets, while 12 are fully furnished one bedroom, a parlour, kitchen and toilet.
The Executive Chairman Teaching Service Board (TSB), Prof Suleiman Bello, Executive Chairman of State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Prof. Bulama Kagu, Chairman Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Borno State Comrade Jibrin Mohammed, immediate Deputy National Chairman NUT, Comrade Bulama Abiso, took turns to commend Prof Zulum’s polices and programmes in enhancing teachers’ welfare and the need to re-dedicate themselves to their duties.
Highlights of the occasion was the presentation of allocation letters to the beneficiaries.
Mrs Obiageri Mazi, once promoted by Governor Zulum for her dedication was one of the beneficiaries.
Obiageri hails from Abia State and has been a teacher at Shehu Sanda Kyarimi 2 Primary School under Jere Local Government Education Authority for 31 years.
On February 15, 2021, Governor Zulum directed her promotion from a class teacher to the rank of Assistant Headmistress as an executive reward for her punctuality.
Zulum, a university professor, had visited the school around 6am as part of his unscheduled supervision and he was amazed that Mrs Obiageri was already at the school, that early, awaiting the arrival of her pupils.
The governor immediately invited her, gave her N100,000 cash and approved her immediate promotion.
