Teacher Sacking: What We Have Done Differently From El-Rufai’s – Zamfara Govt

The Executive Chairman of Zamfara State Universal Education Board, Rt Hon. Murtala Adamu has faulted the approach taken by the Kaduna state government to sack unqualified teachers.

Adamu said this on Monday in Gusau, while briefing a team of journalists who are on a three-day visit to the state for the Zamfara Democracy Dividend Tour, organized by the Nigerian Union of Journalists.

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The journalists, from select media houses across the nation, are in the state for an inspection tour of projects started and completed by the Governor Abdulaziz Yari-led administration.

Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna state governor, had last year fired about 22,000 teachers after they were unable to pass an assessment test.

The decision was greeted with widespread condemnation, but El-Rufai insisted that there was no going back on the sack.

But speaking today, the Zamfara state SUBEB chairman said they had introduced the Teachers Residency Training (TRT), for massive training and re-training of “unqualified teachers”.

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He said the approach has helped the state filter out the unqualified teachers and equip them with the relevant skills in teaching, for better performance.

Speaking further, Adamu said since the inception of Governor Yari in 2011, the state government have spent N15 billion to build and renovate schools in the state, adding that adequate programs have also been initiated to reduce out-of-school children in the state.

According to him, in June 2012 the sate had 283,000 pupils, but the number nearly doubled following the intervention of the state government.

Adamu, who also doubles as the Chairman of UBEB in Nigeria, further revealed that contrary to denials by some state officials, the Goodluck Jonathan government constructed nine Almajiri schools in Zamfara State.

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