CBMP Analytical Report Part 1 - Transparency and Accountability ...

service even further especially in rural areas where teachers are generally few at a
school. Thus the security situation has significant negative contribution to poor
teaching service delivery in primary schools since it affects planning, timing of lessons
and instills fear and anxiety in the head teachers.
3.2.7 Teachers Behaviour and Salary Payment
The study took cognizance that teaching is a profession, taken up by people who are
also human beings and have several thoughts and priorities of life. They also do
different things with their money, adjudged as both good and bad from an
independent perspective, and how these behavioural practices affect delivery of
teaching services.
The study findings indicate that once the salaries have been received, 51.1% of the
teachers ‘continue normally’ in delivering the teaching services. On the other hand,
the study found out that 48.9% of the teachers ‘stay out of work’ for some hours or
days to sort out personal issues depending on the gravity of the issues at hand.
Qualitative interviews with parents, teachers spouses and pupils revealed that issues
that keep teachers out of their work soon after receiving salaries were; shopping,
paying debts, drinking beer and hiding out from debtors among others.
Further interrogation revealed that salaries usually do not come on time and teachers’
households run out of almost all basic household consumables that were planned for
that month. As such, once teachers get their salaries it is irresistible to go for shopping
to ensure that their households have basic consumable items. It was noted that other
teachers have the opportunity to get basic consumable items on credit from shops
within their vicinity because the shop owners know them in person and know that
they would get paid around the 27 th of the month. The same is true with local
business people who offer local loans to others within the vicinity and teachers stand
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