- NUT has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s
endorsement of Governor El-Rufai’s sacking of 22,000
teachers
- Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna state had sacked 22,000
teachers in the state over failure of competency test
- The union said that it would be unfair if President
Buhari had listened to the one-sided story and decided
to endorse sacking of the teachers by El-Rufai
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has faulted
President Muhammadu Buhari for endorsing the
laying off of about 22,000 teachers in Kaduna
state.
New Telegraph report that the general secretary
of the NUT, Dr. Mike Eneh, said on Monday,
November 13, in Abuja that rather than layoff
teachers under the guise of having failed a
competency test, a retraining programme ought
to have been organized to boost the quality and
efficiency of the teachers in the state.
arewaupdates.com gathered that the Eneh said the
government of Kaduna state had no right
whatsoever to conduct any form of test for
teachers, as such was the mandate of the
Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN).
He noted that the Governor of Kaduna state,
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, had only ended up
embarrassing himself and the state, and have
proven beyond all reasonable doubt, the
educational imbalance between the north and
the south.
“It will be unfair if Mr. President listen to the one-sided
story and decide to sack the teachers. If I were Mr.
President, I could have called all parties involved including
the stakeholders, the NUT, the people that set the exams
and we dialogue to proffer solutions to know what to do,”
he said. Eneh who described the competency test and
alleged failure as a lame excuse to cut down cost
by reducing the workforce in the state disclosed
that the union was not resting on its oars, but
was joining forces with the Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC) to address the situation.
“The supervisory department of Kaduna state education
department in the primary education from their Kaduna
state superb is dead. That is simply what it means
otherwise they were just conniving with the people to
collect government money and they were eating it.
“Our position is that El-Rufai and the government of
Kaduna state have decided to cut down on their workforce.
We have learnt that local government and civil servants are
on the line to take their own exams, if 22, 000 teachers can
fail, it then means that civil servants and the local
government workers who do not have the opportunity of
going to school will fail the exams and he will sack
everybody.
We are not laying low; we have several options
we are going to take. The NUT has the backing of
NLC, we are going to face him one on one.
Nobody is intimidating him all we are saying is
that as a governor he should give room for
dialogue.
“Even in governance we cannot clap for all the governors
and say that they are the best but to tell us that 21,000
teachers fail exams does not go down well with us. We are
disputing it, we are arguing it and we want to find out how
the 21,000 teachers failed. If we dialogue and we are
convinced what he did was real and that nobody was
cheated, we give up,” he added.
At the time of filing this report, the leadership of
the Nigeria Labour Congress was unavailable to
react, as they were in the middle of an intense
meeting deliberating on their next move.
Meanwhile, arewaupdates.com.ng had previously reported
that President Muhammadu Buhari backed the
plans by Governor Nasir El-Rufai to sack 22,000
Kaduna teachers under an educational reform
being undertaken by the Kaduna state
government.
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