Fayose carpets Buhari on sack of 22,000 Kaduna teachers: Says APC govt turning workers sack to policy
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| President Buhari and Governor Fayose |
The governor said; “By openly supporting the sack of about 22,000 teachers in Kaduna State, President Buhari has approved loss of jobs as the official policy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) instead of creation of three million jobs per year that the party promised Nigerians.” Governor Fayose made remarks while giving out hundreds of eye glasses to Ekiti teachers to assist them in reading properly.
He also gave some bags of rice and
cash to the teachers. Governor Fayose who reiterated his total commitment to
the welfare of workers in Ekiti State, said; “Not minding the State’s inability
to pay salary as at when due, owing to paucity of fund, I will not sack any
worker under any guise.”
Fayose who said it was better to retrain the
teachers instead of sacking them added that it was sad that President Buhari,
whose government promised to create jobs for Nigerians, is supporting throwing
of about 22,000 teachers to the labour market after causing loss of millions of
jobs in the private sector and collapse of several companies.
He said the President’s position was a pointer
that labour leaders in the country should prepare for mass sack of workers by
the APC governments both at federal and State levels. “Here in Ekiti State, the
immediate past APC government used competency test to demote many secondary
school principals, vice principals and primary school head teachers, leading to
sudden death of many of them. The government then tried to force the competency
test on the teachers but they resisted. “Today, students in Ekiti State are
still being taught by the same teachers that the APC government said were not
competent and the students were the ones whose performance gave the State first
position in NECO in 2016 and 2017.
The State also moved from 26 percent
performance in the West African Examination Council (WAEC) examination in 2014
to 36.5 percent in 2015, 42 percent in 2016 and 74.86 percent in 2017.
“Therefore, instead of hiding under competency test to sack teachers, the APC
government both at States and federal government levels should come to Ekiti
State and learn how we were able to get optimum performance from the same set
of teachers the immediate past APC government in the State labeled incompetent
and harassed with competency test. While declaring that it was not the right of
any state government to set exams for teachers, Governor Fayose said; “The
Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria was set up for the purpose of
regulating the teaching profession in Nigeria.”
Vanguard
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