Group urges El-Rufai to give incompetent teachers 12 months to upgrade

A group known as Mainan Zazzau Communication Committee has advised Governor Nasir El-Rufai to give teachers who failed competency test a grace of 12 months to upgrade themselves.

The group in a statement signed by its secretary, Ibrahim Adamu Zango described the sack of the 21,780 teachers as draconian and destructive.

The committee also advised that teachers who do not make requisite qualifications after the grace period may then be dismissed.

Condemning the sack of the teachers in Kaduna state, the group said Governor El-Rufai chose a ''totally unacceptable way'' to address the issue while his counterpart in Kano and Sokoto fashioned remedial programmes to train and retrain under-qualified teachers.

Urging the governor to address other issues affecting education in Kaduna state, the group said 50% of pupils in public schools still sit o the floor while over 4000 schools in the state are without windows and doors.

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“We know that till date, pupils in 50 percent of public schools in the state sit on the floor due to absence of furniture. Most of the 4,250 public primary schools have no doors, roofs and windows. There are also no water and toilet facilities. Some of the schools are heavily over-populated. All these are fundamental problems that militate against good education for the teeming masses. They need to be tackled urgently if the government is really serious about reforming the system,” the committee said.

Recall that Kaduna State Government recently sacked 21,789 teachers for failing competency test.

Meanwhile, two states, Kogi and Bayelsa government are planning to assess their primary school teachers to improve the state education.

The drama after teachers' sack

Immediately the government resolved to sack the teachers who failed the test, series of protest greeted El-Rufai's decision.

The teachers, the labour and teachers union in the state clamped down on the government to rescind the decision to lay off the teachers.

Primary school pupils also took to the streets in protest shouting Ba muso.

However, Governor El-Rufai was riled to see pupils who were supposed to be in the classroom protecting against government decision about teachers who according to the government are not competent enough to teach the pupils. As a result, he released the test scripts of the teachers on Twitter.

Discrediting the viral scripts, the NUT said the scripts the governor released were test scripts of carpenters employed by the same government to teach in primary schools.

Kaduna teachers' protest against Governor Nasir El-Rufai