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The Ministry of Education (MoE) has commenced the teacher verification process to ensure the restructuring and rightsizing of the teaching workforce. The purpose of this initiative is to audit the teachers' payroll and correct all identified anomalies to ensure the elimination of persons with fraudulent qualifications from the system. Money saved by the MOE, if any, will be used to rationalize the pay and benefits of educators to attract and retain professionals in the field.

The newly confirmed Assistant Education Minister for Fiscal Affairs and Human Resource Development, has vowed to work with his colleagues to increase the salaries and wages of educational officials across the country. He told senators that he will work with his colleagues to ensure a corruption- free educational system that is also brought up to a better standard, blaming the corruption in the system on low salaries for teachers and other officials.

A school may demand that six teachers repay nearly $ 30,000 in pay raises they received after obtaining fake degrees from an online school.