Cross River State House of Assembly,
CRSHA, has resolved the rift between the state chapter of Nigeria Union of
Teachers NUT and the State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB and directed
the latter to continue with its personnel audit of teachers in the state
primary school sector.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Hon
John Lebo, had penultimate week set up a special committee headed by Hon.
Okpechi Friday to reconcile the warring NUT and SUBEB. Niger Delta Voice
learned that as part of the committee’s resolution, the Board was mandated not
to hesitate to demote teachers with verified fake certificates, who may have
enjoyed promotions over the years, back to their original level of first
appointment with genuine results while those with fake certificates should face
outright dismissal.
The exercise, it would be recalled
had already been conducted in nine out of the 18 local governments covering the
Northern and Central Senatorial districts of the state and had “uncovered over
200 hundred teachers with fake certificates, ghost teachers, dead teachers as
well as house to bank teachers,” before it was suspended by the assembly.
The committee chaired by Hon Okpechi
Friday, last week, ordered as part of its resolutions that SUBEB should go back
to the field to complete the work it started. It also declared that all issues
that provoked the rift between the NUT and SUBEB had been resolved.
While calling on SUBEB to announce
new dates and time for the continuation of the personnel audit exercise in the
remaining LGAs, the committee cautioned that teachers should be given fair
hearing adding that their respect and dignity should be accorded them during
the exercise. It further directed that the SUBEB Chairman should return seized
original certificates to their rightful owners.
“Sufficient and timely radio/television
announcements should be made to inform teachers of the requirements necessary
for the smooth conduct of the exercise and the panel should not request for
school fees receipt as prerequisite for screening,” the committee stated.
The Okpeche led committee also told
the SUBEB chairman to immediately constitute a fresh screening panel to include
NUT, ALGON and the Ministry of Education. It also called on SUBEB to announce
soft landing for those with fake certificates to surrender them or face
dismissal.
“The board should announce amnesty
or give a time frame for fake certificate holders to surrender such
certificates to the screening panel or face the consequence of dismissal if the
panel on its own verifies that such certificates tendered are forged,” it noted.
On his part, the Commissioner for
Education, Hon Goddy Etta lauded the thorough job so far carried out by SUBEB
adding that all hands must be on deck to move the educational sector of the state
to its rightful position.
“We must give our children the
platform and foundation to compete favourably with their peers from other parts
of the country. Supervision and monitoring is paramount to achieve success in
our school system, I am asking the governor to declare a state of emergency in
our educational sector because our ranking and performance is really poor,” he
said.
Source: Vanguard News
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