The Khyber Agency Education Office terminated two ‘fake’ teachers on the basis of an inquiry report and asked the authorities to arrest and recover millions of rupees paid to them during the last ten years, education officials said on Tuesday.
Senior education official and head of the inquiry committee Salim Wazir Khan said that a three-member committee thoroughly checked the official record of the two ghost teachers identified as Ahmad Shah, resident of Charsadda and Noor Haleem, resident of Mohmand Agency.
Khan said that after deep verifications and interviews with different stakeholders, they reached to a conclusion that both the persons were appointed as fake teachers. As per their findings, both the teachers were also absent from their duties since long, he said.
He said that they found that both the persons worked on three different teaching posts which is not possible in a government service. Khan said that both the persons were asked to present the first appointment letter but they failed to produce them.
He further said both the persons were given a chance to defend their cases but they failed to satisfy the inquiry committee. He added that both the ghost teachers hailed from Charsadda and Mohmand Agency respectively but they were posted in Khyber Agency.
The report of the committee asked Mohmand Agency administration and Charsadda police to arrest the two persons who schemed with the government and swallowed more the Rs 2.7 million. Along with the official letter for the arrest of the two persons, the report also asked to recover the amount they withdrew in the previous months as their salaries and allowances.
Agency Education Officer (AEO) Abdur Rauf Khan also confirmed the development. He said services of the two fake teaches have been terminated. He said that several other inquiries about grass embezzlements and other ghost teachers in the Khyber Agency education office would also be completed in the coming few days.
The official said that during the last ten years, a large number of fake appointments had been made that cost the national exchequer with millions of rupees.
