The Governor of Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai, has said he pulled
his son out of a public school due to kidnapping threats.
This is as he said his decision to enrol his son in a public
school to affirm his confidence in the Kaduna State education system.
El-Rufai said this on Thursday during the weekly ministerial
briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the State House,
Abuja.
He revealed that his government had hired more people than
it had sacked in the last five years, adding that 7,700 qualified secondary
school teachers have been recruited and would be deployed once he was done
purging secondary schools of underqualified teachers.
“We fired 22,000 teachers and hired 25,000. We have tested
them recently, some of them have fallen back and failed. We are going to fire
them and hire more people. We are determined to improve teacher quality because
the teacher is education, it’s not the classroom.
“We all thought the thugs were going to primary schools. Now
we have to get rid of some teachers in secondary schools as well. But we have
hired about 7,700 secondary school teachers. They are just standing by for us
to ease these ones out. And we have taken a decision as public officers to
enrol our children in public schools.
“I took my child to
public school because we want to show that we believe in the quality of public
education which we all got and that I had to pull my son out because some
people wanted to mount a special operation to kidnap him. I don’t think they
will succeed, but it will put other children at risk.
“So I pulled him out. So he’s getting home-schooling until
the situation improves,” the former FCT Minister explained.
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