The Conscience for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (CHRCR) has urged the Kogi State Government to urgently employ more teachers in basic schools and across all educational institutions in the state.
In a statement issued on Monday to mark World Teachers’ Day, the group’s Executive Director, Idris Miliki Abdul, described teachers as great people, noting that without them there would be no doctors, lawyers, engineers, judges, governors or even presidents.
Abdul said teachers deserved special treatment and called for improvements in the schools, many of which he said needed rehabilitation.
He also called on the state government to provide transportation across all local government areas to assist students, noting that the current fuel prices had imposed severe hardship on pupils in the state.
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The CHRCR boss lamented that the transport sector had been left in the hands of private operators, questioning what the Ministry of Transportation was doing to ease the suffering of citizens.
“In the last ten years, the Kogi State Government has failed to improve the transportation service,” he said, adding that the inherited Confluence Transport was dead and its staff thrown out into the labour market.
He urged the current administration to declare a state of emergency in the transport sector and key into the Federal Government’s initiative and those of several other state governments to alleviate the situation of Kogi residents.
