President Muhammadu Buhari has backed the plans by Governor Nasir El-Rufai to sack 22,000 Kaduna teachers under an educational reform being undertaken by the Kaduna state government.
The president gave his backing to the reform at a special retreat of the federal executive council in Abuja on Monday, November 13.
The president speaking at the event stated that the effect of the decay in the education sector is glaring and vowed that his administration would change the situation for the better.
The labour unions and the kaduna state government have been at logger heads over the plan by Governor El-Rufai to sack to sack about 22,000 teachers who failed a competency test.
Kaduna state teachers have threatened to go on strike if the state government should sack any teacher for failing the recent competence test conducted in the state.
The government after the test, announced it's about to employ fresh 25,000 thousands teachers to replace the new ones who failed the test, a step that the union immediately kicked against.
Punch reports that the Kaduna state Universal Basic Education Board executive chairman, Nasiru Umar, however said the recruitment was part of the state government’s effort to equip all schools with competent and qualified teachers.
However, the state chairman of the NUT, Audu Amba, said the development would force teachers in primary and secondary schools in the state to down tools.
Source: Naija.ng