Governor Nasir El-Rufai has condemned the protests by primary school pupils against the planned sack of about 21,000 teachers in Kaduna.
Kaduna government had announced that the teachers who failed the competency test organized by the government would be sacked and replaced with new ones.
On Monday and Tuesday, pupils across Kawo and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna state, moved around in protest against the state government’s decision to sack thousands of teachers.
Reacting, El-Rufai through his spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan said it is “callous and despicable” to send children to protest on behalf of the incompetent teachers and the government will not tolerate the act.
“It is a callous and despicable act to involve young pupils in illegal, politically-inspired demonstration. The Kaduna State Government has received reports of primary school pupils being pushed to the streets by their unqualified teachers for illegal protests”, he wrote.
”These unlawful acts have included getting young children to block highways. Government condemns this wanton disregard for the lives and safety of primary school pupils placed in the care of these unqualified teachers.
”It is grievous enough that bad teachers have been allowed to imperil the educational future of these children. But for these same teachers to endanger the children by asking them to block and lie on highways illustrates a chilling level of irresponsibility that no law-governed society can accept.”
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