Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has announced plans to conduct competency test for secondary school teachers across the state.
El-Rufai, in a post on his Twitter page on Sunday, revealed that the test is meant to separate the incompetent ones from those that are competent.
He also revealed that the state government has decided to pay urban teachers in the state 27.5% higher than average civil servants, while rural teachers will earn 32.5% higher than their other civil service colleagues to attract the best to the teaching profession.
The governor said: “We are doing our best to restore the integrity of the teaching profession. We have finished tests for primary school teachers and we are going to administer competency tests for secondary school teachers.”
Lastly, we’ve been told that the reforms we are implementing won’t be sustainable, because when we leave office, things will go back to what they used to be. We hope not! While we are here, we will do what we can. Continuation of our reforms is left for the electorates to decide. pic.twitter.com/VoLpU5OycG
— Governor Kaduna (@GovKaduna) March 18, 2018
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Recall there was unrest in the state when the state government conducted similar test for the over 30,000 primary school teachers in the state in 2017, following which 21,780 that failed to obtain 70% pass mark were sacked and replaced with newly recruited 25,000 teachers.