Celebration As Court Stops El-Rufai From Sacking 21,000 Teachers
Hundreds of Teachers have taken to the streets to celebrate a National Industrial Court order stopping the planned sack of 21,000 primary school teachers.
Recall that the Kaduna State government planned to sack 21,000 primary school teachers who failed a competency test in June 2017.
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State governor, Nasir El-Rufai had announced that the sacked teachers will replaced with new ones, a decision that caused the teachers approach the court.
Samuel Atum, the lawyer who represented the teachers, had on October 30 filed a motion of “interlocutory injunction”, asking the court to restrain the government from dismissing or disengaging any teacher on the basis of the test conducted in June 2017.
Justice Lawal Mani on Thursday at the hearing granted the application pending the determination of the substantive suit and adjourned the case to February 6th, 2018.
The teachers who were present at the court were seen jubilating and congratulating themselves over the court injunction.
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Speaking with newsmen after the court session, Atum said, “This is democracy and the premise of democracy is the rule of law, so we expect nothing more than absolute submission by the state government to comply with the order of the court.
“I have confidence that the government will comply or obey this order.” he said
