The boast by the Nasir El-Rufai
led Kaduna State Government that it would replace about 22,000 teachers with
qualified ones has been put to test.
This is as one of the new
recruits posted an error-filled message on Facebook.
Usman Kabiru, in a post he
shared, expressed joy that he had been employed by the State Universal Basic
Education Board (SUBEB).
“I been offer a teacher in subeb
as a primary teacher”, (sic) he wrote.
His statement has sparked debate
on social media, with many questioning how he got the job.
Recall that Saidu
Adamu, Counsellor on Information to El-Rufai, had stressed that the
administration was sanitising the civil service and injecting new blood as part
of the reform process to make the service responsive, efficient and
sustainable.
On the 22,000 teachers sacked by
the government, Adamu said the administration would replace them with 25, 000
qualified ones.
“The teachers sacked have no
business in the classroom,” he stressed, adding that the government was focused
on laying a solid foundation at the primary level for children of the poor to
acquire sound education.
“By sanitizing our primary
schools, children of the poor would acquire the right education that would add
value to their lives and the society and become something worthwhile in the
future.
“No any sensible government will
allow the way things are going in the education sector to continue.
“A situation where a primary
school teacher and graduate of geography can’t even spell geography correctly,
and you expect the government to allow such person to continue teaching, is not
possible.
“It is high time to change the
situation and we have screened those who applied for teaching jobs to get
suitable replacements.
“We are also going to conduct
physical and oral tests to confirm that we have the right persons, we want to
have functional and qualified teachers in our schools.
“I want to also assure that what
Kaduna state governor is doing is the best that any right-thinking leader should
do.
“We have been left behind and we
contributed to what is happening to us right now because the previous
administrations did not care about the future of poor people.“
This is the kind of things we experienced in Nigeria. A situation where the dumb and the illiterate feel they are born to rule the country. God have mercy.
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