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

the chance of accessing such local loans. However, as salaries delay, the creditors
pursue the teachers even to their work place. Thus for fear of being embarrassed in
presence of the pupils, some teachers choose to stay out of school and wait for the
salaries. And once the salaries arrive, such teachers would ensure that they clear off
the debt and restart normal life. The study also noted that other teachers have the
habits of drinking liquor, and once they are paid, it happens that they take some time
off to drink. This fact is painfully accepted even in the teaching fraternity and
teachers themselves admit that a lot of time is lost as a result of the situation. For
example, several teachers responded as follows to the direct question;
Figure 2:
How Many Days of Teaching have been lost due to Salary Delays
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Percentage Response
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
No day lost 2 - 3 Days 4 - 5 Days
1 - 2
Weeks
Others
Days Lost 64.9 16.5 7.5 1.4 9.7
Source: Authors Analyzed Raw Data
The study concluded that 48.9% of the teaching time and teaching services are
disturbed between the 27 th of the month end to the 4 th of the following month,
suggesting an average of one full week of teaching service or student-teacher contact
time being lost due in large to the delayed salaries and teachers’ response (behaviour).
Direct interrogation with pupils also revealed that during the ‘salary payment period’,
there are a number of disturbances to their class arrangement. It was noted that in
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