NUT accuses El-Rufai of displaying carpenters' scripts on social media

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If you have been thinking the questions in the viral scripts released by governor Nasir El-Rufai were answered by Kaduna teachers, you need to hear the teachers side of the story.

The National Union of Teachers in Kaduna has come out to say the governor El-Rufai only released the scripts of carpenters turned teachers to deceive Nigerians.

Two Union Chairmen in the state have stood their ground that the test scripts the governor displayed on social media were that of artisans employed by the same government to teach in the classroom.

The NUT Chairman in Zaria, Yahaya Abbas said the union was disturbed and prompted to investigate the scripts the governor published on Twitter.

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Abbas said the union's investigation revealed that ''candidate number EKUB 0059 displayed by el-Rufa’i was a carpenter in Kubau local government before he was forcefully taken to class. Candidate number EKUB 2839 was a messenger in the same local government.''

"You may recall that El-Rufa’i has directed the conversion of all redundant staff in the local education authorities to teachers. Among those converted were messengers, carpenters, labourers, security personnel among others. We were made to write the exam in question with those people'' , he said.

The state's Labour Chairman, Adamu Ango agreed with Abbas that the script the governor displayed on Twitter belong to carpenters and messengers forced to become teachers.

Accusing the governor double standard, Ango said the governor employed artisans to teach in Kaduna primary schools and turn around to conduct competency test for them..

''It is vital to mention that it is the same government that met with the Local Education Authority and asked carpenters, plumbers, cleaners and others to teach in the classroom or else they would lose their jobs. You can see why some teachers failed the examination.

''Even the result that was posted online by the governor via his Twitter handle, was that of an O’Level certificate holder, who was a carpenter but later posted to teach in a school. How do you expect such a guy to pass the examination?''

Based on the union's conclusion that some of the test scripts with ridiculous scores were written by carpenters and messengers employed by El-Rufai's administration, the NUT and NLC have called on the governor to rescind his decision on sacking almost 22,000 teachers and deploy other ways to get rid of unqualified teachers.