Kaduna government has announced
when new teachers employed to replace the sacked 21,870 teachers will resume.
Those affected were dismissed
after primary competency test administered on them by the state government last
year.
The state chapter of the Nigerian
Union of Teachers (NUT) is currently on indefinite strike over the matter.
On Monday, the State Universal
Basic Education Board (SUBEB) disclosed after a meeting with the state
Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, that the first batch of the 25,000 new
teachers will be issued appointment letters in February.
A statement issued after the
meeting by spokesman of the governor, Samuel Aruwan, said the education secretaries
presented reports on the conditions of schools in their localities.
The secretaries said most
teachers in Kaduna were reporting to work, but were being intimidated by
officials of the NUT.
According to the statement, “The
meeting received reports from all the 23 councils on the conditions in the
schools in their areas.
“The State Universal Basic
Education Board (SUBEB) also gave an update on the recruitment process for new
teachers.
“SUBEB officials confirmed that
the marking of scripts for new recruits has been concluded, and they assured
the governor that the first batch of newly recruited teachers should be ready
for deployment by the middle of February 2018.
“The council officials reported
that most teachers in the state are reporting to work, and ignoring the NUT
strike. The field reports indicated that NUT officials are persisting in their
harassment of teachers that are reporting for duty.
“This illegal action is being
aggravated by the seizure of school attendance registers by some of the union
officials”
Aruwan said the governor promised
to provide security to protect the schools. The governor, according to the
statement, warned union officials to desist from impeding teachers that are
reporting for work and seizing attendance registers.
“The right to strike does not
include the right to prevent others from working. Union officials are reminded
that school registers are public property, and seizing them amounts to an
illegal act” the statement added.
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