El-Rufai Has My Full Support In Planned Sacking Of 21,780 Kaduna Teachers - Buhari
It seems as if President Muhammadu Buhar has given the go-ahead
and backed the Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El-rufai over the latter’s plan to
sack over 21,780 teachers who recently failed the competency test conducted by
the state government.
Buhari
whilst speaking at the State House in Abuja during a special retreat of the
Federal Executive Council (FEC) on the challenges facing the Education sector
in Nigeria themed: “Education in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects”.
Buhari
said: “Being an orphan, I still feel that boarding school molded me. I spent
nine year in boarding school, three in primary school and six in secondary
school. “In those days, teachers treat students like their own children.
If you
did well, they will tell you, you didn’t, they wouldn’t spare the
rod. When I finished my secondary school, I didn’t work for a day, I refused to
work for a day. I left home, I refused to work in the local government, and
then I joined the army.
And then I listened to one of
the Nigerians I respect, he said after his training here in Nigeria and the
United States, he went to his alma mater, his primary school to see what he
could contribute. I won’t mention his name but when he went, he couldn’t
differentiate between the students, the children and the teachers.
And what el-Rufai is trying to do now is exactly what that man
told me about 10 years ago. It is a very serious situation when teachers
cannot pass the examination that they are supposed to teach the children. It is
a very tragic situation we are in, and this our gathering is one of the most
important ones in this administration.”
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