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By Muhd D Haidar
It was a black weekend for the
Executive Chairman of Jigawa Universal Basic Education Board, Professor Haruna Musa, as he was reported to have escaped lynching from irate J-Tech candidates.
The unshameful and embrassing development took place on Saturday at Federal University Dutse during the conduct of aptitude test for J-Tech program, as thousands of temporary teachers under the program in Jigawa state had protested and interrupted the aptitude test organized by SUBEB for the recruitment of 6,000 teachers.
The J-Teach youth who gathered at various designated centers across the state have registered their grievances for unruly behaviours of SUBEB resulted to scolded the officials, the candidates had protest and interrupted the organized aptitude test on alleged plan by some self centered officials to introduce impunity in the recruitment process as against the instruction given by the state governor Malam Umar Namadi.
Speaking to newsmen on behalf of the aggrieved J-Teach candidate Abbas Mu’azu Aujara said, 4,500 of them were recruited last two years and in the process they sat for five different aptitude tests and three different verification exercise.
Said he: “Today we have spent two years as J-Teach staff contributing our own quarters in Jigawa Educational development, surviving on a token amount of allowance.
“The state governor had last month directed SUBEB to permanently employ us as teachers, We went for screening and documentation in according to Civil Service rules just last week, but to our own dismay we were invited for another aptitude test, and you can see there are thousands of new faces who are not J-teach members present for the test”. He lamented.
According to him, the development has raised suspicious among us, as the organizers have hiding agenda of replacing those who spent two years in the system with their favorite candidate who had never been in classroom.
“We are aware the state governor, Malam Umar Namadi approved new rules for teachers recruitment starting from placing candidate to temporary teachers to ensure only qualified and those with passion to the job are observed to a permanent classroom teachers.
“But unfortunately it appears some people want to sabotage the governor’s effort in revitalizing the state education with provision of adequate and qualified teachers for selfish interest, that is why we blocked this test from taken place”. He noted.
They called on the state governor Malam Umar Namadi to investigate and take an appropriate actions before his 12 point agenda drift into ocean.
Receiving the aggrieved J-Teach staff at Dutse Government house, the Chief of Staff Government House Senator Mustapha Makama Kiyawa promised to channel all their grievances to the state governor, and assured them justice will be done.