Sacked government servants say powerful ghost teachers still get salaries

By Ashrafuddin Pirzada

KHYBER DISTRICT: A group affected government employees including women teachers and Chokidars have asked the government to take action against the illegal termination orders by education officer Jadoon Wazir and alleged that dozens others who are working with former and siting parliamentarians still receiving their salaries while not performing their jobs.

Talking to this scribe, by phone Chokidar(watchman) Ashrafuddin, who led the group of affected male and female teachers and Chokidars said on Tuesday that most of the female teachers had abandoned to perform their duties because of the the Khyber district education officer. They said DEO Jadoon Wazir used to come to the girls’ schools and harass female teachers for nothing. They alleged that Jadoon was a corrupt person as he did not say anything to a number of ghost male teachers who were being backed by former and siting parliamentarians.

A female teacher on the request of anonymity told this scribe by phone that Jadoon used to come to her school and tried to harass her. He added that Jadoon wanted to develop friendship with her and used her immorally. She said when she gestured him that she was not the woman he was thinking then Jadoon started making hurdles for her. She said she also informed All Khyber Teachers Association(ATA) designators about the Jadoon harassment.

The female teacher further disclosed that several times she tried to avoid his immoralities but he always forced her and other female teachers to talk him. She added that after discussing with her family she stopped performing her duty regularly and she was terminated.

Chokidar Ashrafuddin said Jadoon failed to perform his job honestly as dozens of other school teachers,chokidars and other government servants are still missing for the last several years. He said Jadoon pay the ghost government employees their salaries every months. He said several others teachers are still working with parliamentarians in Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi as their personal accountants and business managers but they yet to be terminated.

He said that Jadoon also failed to deliver as most of the government school’s teachers are performing duel jobs which are not allowed in the government service rules. He said Jadoon took action against only those who have had no relations with influential and links with the high-ups.

The affected servants demanded of the federal minister doctor Noorul Haq Qadri,governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and federal and provincial education minister to take notice of the termination orders and sit up an inquiry against DEO Jadoon.

They said that they were collecting Jadoon’s evidences of corruption and will formally file case against him to the National Accountability Bureau(NAB).