Edo State Government's bid to sanitize the Education section, recently embarked on verification exercise ascertain teachers that are fit to work. The result of the verification exercise is that a total number of 836 teachers have been sacked.
The verification exercise was carried out by the department of the
Information and
Communication Technology.
The Commissioner for Basic Education, Patrick Aguinede, has already confirmed the figure of the sacked teachers.
He stated that the exercise was necessary, after a screening exercise carried out by the state government.
He said those sacked were found to have spent more than the maximum years in service, mentally unstable, physically
blind and have falsified their age and credentials.
"The teachers were found to have stayed above 35 years. Some were physically blind,
some manipulated their results and age which later showed they finished school before
they were born," Aguinede said.
The affected teachers were said to have known about their sack after they discovered that their names were missing from the December salary voucher.
The state secretary of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Akin Adeojo, said the union had heard about the
sack, adding that the affected teachers had not been issued sack letters.
He said the NUT would access the situation before taking any
decision, adding that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) would resist the victimisation of any teacher. (Tribune)
Punch reports that one Osahon said he is appealling to the state
government to reconsider its stand on the sacked teachers.
"I don't have a reliable job. It is my wife that is taking care of the home. My wife is not up to
three years in service. She is not up to 35 years old. The governor should give the young
ones a second chance. They should regularise their age,"
