Kole District leadership is planning to expose primary school teachers who abscond from duty to ride boda bodas to earn a living on top of their salaries.
The LC5 vice chairperson, Ms Doreen Angela, confirmed they would display the list of all teachers who are engaging in boda boda business.
Ms Angela said they have been receiving complaints from parents and some head teachers that their teachers always abscond from duty during class hours to transport passengers on bicycles and motorcycles.
According to the leader of government business in Kole, some teachers leave pupils alone in classes as they spend the whole day riding boda bodas.
This kind of mentality by some teachers, Ms Angela said is adversely affecting academic performance in schools.
“I am directing the education department to submit to my office the list of teachers who have turned themselves into boda boda riders before the beginning of the first term so that their names can be deleted from the payroll, because government cannot continue wasting money on them,” she told Daily Monitor on Wednesday.
Ms Angella, however, observed that teachers are free to do any kind of business outside class and during holidays, but not during class hours when they are supposed to be busy teaching.
The Resident District Commissioner, Ms Agnes Akello Ebong, noted that engaging in boda boda riding is not bad, but teachers who are doing it must come out and choose between teaching and ridding boda bodas since they cannot mix the two.
“Last year, I launched an operation of arresting teachers who are engaging in boda boda ridding, where a number of them were apprehended and the same operation will continue in first term because we cannot allow these teachers to continue messing with the future of our children,” the RDC said.
She said her office will work together with other stakeholders and the education department to bring this vice to an end.
