The Executive Governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for backing Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-rufai's plan to sack about 21, 000 teachers. The teachers reportedly failed the competency test conducted by the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
Governor Fayose in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka said it was disheartening that the Buhari administration that promised to create millions of jobs for Nigerians would renege on the promise and approve the sack of thousands of teachers thereby throwing them back to the labour market.
He called on organize labour to be ready for widespread sack of members across the country as other states may adopt similar tactics in the guise or reorganizing the education sector.
“By openly supporting the sack of about 22,000 teachers in Kaduna State, President Buhari has approved loss of jobs as the official policy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) instead of creation of three million jobs per year that the party promised Nigerians.”
“Here in Ekiti State, the immediate past APC government used competency test to demote many secondary school principals, vice principals and primary school head teachers, leading to sudden death of many of them. The government then tried to force the competency test on the teachers but they resisted."
He assured workers in the state that his administration would not introduce policies that would lead to mass disengagement of workers. “Not minding the State’s inability to pay salary as at when due, owing to paucity of fund, I will not sack any worker under any guise.”
