Prioritise teachers’ welfare, Ambode tells new TESCOM board members

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday, inaugurated chairman and board members of the State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) charging them to give top considerations to teachers’ welfare.

Mr Ambode also urged them to ensure employment of only well-qualified professionals to teach in the state’s public secondary schools.

The governor spoke at a twin event which also featured the swearing-in of Adesumbo Abolarin as Permanent Secretary/Auditor General for Local Government at Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja.

Ambode said the passage and signing of the Teaching Service Commission Bill was a great moment for the education sector after eight years of several attempts.

“With the knowledge that education plays a very vital role in the development of our society and that a society cannot thrive above the level of its educational attainment, the passage and signing of this Law was very essential.

“Today, in fulfillment of the provision of that law, we have just witnessed the inauguration of the Board whose responsibility will be to ensure that the objectives of the law are achieved.

“For avoidance of doubts, let me state that one of the major aims of this law, which shall be a key responsibility of this Board, is to ensure improvement in the welfare of our teachers and also ensure that well-qualified teachers are recruited into our public secondary schools,” Ambode said.