The answer scripts has triggered much concern which has left Nigerians pondering on the future of our kids and our education at large.
On Thursday night, Kaduna State and its incompetent teachers led Twitter trends in Nigeria.
The release of the scripts was a response to the organised protests by the Nigerian Labour Congress, school pupils and the disgraced teachers, some of whom flaunted posters proclaiming: “Examination is not a true test of knowledge.”
Governor Nasir El-Rufai said the protests were in vain as his government will go ahead to recruit new and qualified teachers.
El-Rufai said: “No amount of protests will deter the government from recruiting qualified teachers, but disengaged teachers will be given thier entitlements as specified in their terms of service.”
The governor urged all teachers who failed the competency test to continue teaching as due process will be strictly adhered to for those who will to be disengaged with three months notice.
“We will start disengaging those who scored from 0-59 per cent.”
El-Rufai equally justified the partial disclosure of the poor scripts.
He said: “Many times, the decisions we take offer us no political advantages in a polity long accustomed to the false allure of populism.
But we do what is necessary, not minding the direct impact on us.”
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, led hundreds of civil servants to the state House of Assembly on Wednesday, saying the competency test was used as excuse to sack the teachers and the test itself lacked credibility and therefore totally unacceptable.
“It was a smokescreen to just sack workers. Teaching is a profession in Nigeria” Wabba said.
We have teacher training institutions and Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria.
Why are they not the ones conducting the test?
This is because they have sinister motives.
That is why they didn’t use those institutions.
They are doing this just to sack and reduce workers and we will not accept that.
Any exercise built on faulty ground cannot stand.
This is our position.” He added.
Wabba alleged that the state government also plans to sack 15,000 core civil service and 5,000 local government workers.
The Northern Coordinator, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Bulama Abisu, has also condemned the sack of the teachers.
Abisu, who led NUT executives from the 19 northern states on solidarity visit to the state, called on President Muhammad Buhari to intervene in the matter.
He said: “Teachers get the least salary in most states in the North.
Even the meager salary is not paid as at when due with huge number of teachers still being owed by the government.
The governors are moving from owing salaries to sacking teachers on the claim of incompetency when it is the same government that employed the teachers.”
Below are some pictures of the answer scripts:
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