From:Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has said that it will not present its members for another competency test by the Kaduna State Government.
NUT stayed this at the end of their congress in Kaduna on Wednesday.
“The motive behind the test is to downsize the workforce the same way it was done three years ago,” the teachers alleged.
During the Congress attended by some National officers, the State Chairman, Comrade Ibrahim Dalhatu, said the meeting was important so as to brief the teachers on the steps taken so far by the leadership of NUT.
“The National leadership has set up a 5-man Committee to advice accordingly and after the submission of their report, we all agreed that our teachers will not write any competency test because the Kaduna State Government has no legal ground to conduct such assessment as it is only the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) that has the legal backing to conduct such exercise.
“What informed the meeting is the decision of the Governor to conduct another competency test for our Primary School Teachers. The National head office has constitutec a five-man committee to speak with the people. We have written to them to confirm whether the information we saw on social media is true or not but we did not get any response from them, only for them to send us the timetable scheduled for the exams,” he said.
The National President of NUT, Comrade Nasir Idris, said it is not only teachers that are working in Kaduna State, “ we consider the move as another deliberate attempt to intimidate teachers in the State, therefore the union will not be so foolish to submit herself to fall victim again.”
