The Chairman of Aniocha North Local Government in Delta, Mr. Jaunty Okwudi, has called on the state government to provide more teachers to the existing primary schools in the area.

Okwudi said in Asaba today, that the 38 primary schools in the area lacked adequate facilities.

He said that the present number of teachers in the schools were not enough to impact qualitative education on 11,124 pupils in the public schools.

He said that the number of teachers needed in those schools would soon be collated and forwarded to the state government.

The chairman said that chairs and desks would be provided for schools that lacked the items, adding that he had yet to visit all the primary schools to know the needs of each school.

"If these schools have enough teachers and adequate facilities they would do well," he said.

He expressed concern that many teachers preferred to work in the cities and urban settlements rather than teach in the rural areas.

"We are concerned about this, because it is disturbing, we want the trend to be reversed.

"The only way to do this is to provide incentives and encourage those who would teach or currently teaching in rural areas," the chairman said.

He said the attitude of working in the towns had affected the number of teachers in the rural schools.