A retired educationist and Proprietor of Tisa morning Star Mr. Justin B. Dakora has called on government to leave out the Northern Region in a ban on teacher recruitment.

He said the Northern Region should be made a special case because of the lack of trained teachers in the area.

Mr. Dakora made this appeal at the closing day of the Tisa Morning Star in Tamale, the Northern Region capital.

Statistics by the Network for Educational Development indicates that at the Kindergarten level the teacher pupil ratio in the Northern Region is 109 pupils is to one teacher, 69 pupils is to one teacher at the primary level and 25 students is to one teacher at the Junior High level.

He also appealed to the people of the Northern Region to embrace peace to make the region attractive for people who want to work in the area.

The Tisa Morning Star Proprietor said the region alone has four out of the five curfews in the country emphasizing this is not good enough for the region.

Mr Dukora added that there is the need for the reorganization of the teacher posting in the region to ensure that the surplus teachers who have no classrooms to teach in the metropolis and other district capitals are reposted to the rural areas while more teachers are recruited for the various flash points in the region.

He said in most of the public schools in the three northern regions, performance at the BECE has always been poor because of the poor teacher pupil ratio.

Mr Dakora notes that pupils in public schools in the region do not receive good education foundation at the early stage of their education leading to their poor performance.

Mr. Dakora said the vision of Tisa Morning Star is to empower the northern child.

He said the Northern Region has neither cocoa nor gold and the only legacy that can be bequeathed to the youth of the area is good education to enable become productive to the country.