4,403 Ebonyi Teachers Fail Certificate Screening
The Ebonyi State Universal Basic Education Board
has said that a total of 4,403 primary schoolteachers in the state failed a test conducted
by the board.
The leader of the board’s investigating committee,
Prof. Anthony Ani, announced this in Abakaliki, the state capital on Friday
while presenting the committee’s report to the board.
Ani said that over 9,000 teachers were screened
during the exercise; out of which, 437 of them had Teacher Training II
certificates and that more than half of the population of primary
schoolteachers in the state were without original certificates .
He said, “The board should, as a matter of urgency,
compile the names of teachers, especially those who presented statements of
result, testimonials, and photocopies and forwarded such names to acclaimed
graduating institutions for verification and authentication.”
Ani also called for concerted efforts to revamp
basic education in the state and recommended that teachers with severe medical
challenges should be advised to seek medical attention with government support
or be retired from the system, in line with government regulation.
Receiving the report, the chairman, Ebonyi State
Universal Basic Education Board, Chief Hyacinth Ikpor, said the government was
poised to sanitise the education sector and assured stakeholders that the
report would be implemented to the letter.
The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. John
Ekeh, described the report as appalling, stating that teachers without
requisite qualifications would be shown the way out.
“The truth is that those who are not qualified to
be in the classrooms would be shown the way out while those carrying false
certificates will be prosecuted,” he said.
-Punch
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