Clement Nnachi, Abakaliki
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.
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