Shehu Sani Blasts El-Rufai Over Planned Sack Of 21, 000 Primary School Teachers

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna), has attacked his state governor, Nasir El Rufai over plans to sack 21, 000 primary school teachers.

The Senator described the governor’s move as “inhuman and the height of lunacy”, adding that he “derives pleasure by inflicting suffering and hardship on others.”

He further accused El-Rufai of “blowing N10bn feeding school children”, alleging the sack of the teachers is “a plot to employ political loyalists of the Governor.”

According to him, El-Rufai’s action had brought nothing but “chaos and confusion in public schools in Kaduna.”

He said, “The sacking of over 21 000 primary school teachers by the Kaduna State Governor stands condemned.

“It’s inhuman and the height of lunacy by a man who derives pleasure by inflicting suffering and hardship on others.

“How can the Governor who blew over N10 billion feeding school children only to realise that the teachers are incompetent. El-Rufai’s action has brought nothing but chaos and confusion in public school in Kaduna.

“He promised the people of the state that he will enroll his children in public school when he becomes governor, he has not only failed to do that but he is destroying the educational future of those who chose to send their wards to public school. Incompetence is not a reason but an excuse to sack thousands of teachers owed salaries for months.

“El-rufai wants to employ politically loyal teachers he will use for 2019 elections as polling agents,” the senator alleged.

“At the time the Federal Government is ‘celebrating’ creating 7 million jobs, at a time the Governor is also claiming to create hundreds of jobs, thousands of teaching jobs are today marked for funeral service in Kaduna. Job creation in Nigeria today has become mythical, magical, farcical and comical. They create a few jobs and murder many others.”