From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja
The Kogi State Commissioner For Education Science and Technology, Hon Wemi Jones has described the reports by some online media that Gov. Yahaya Bello has reportedly ordered the sack of Kogi teachers who are not APC supporters as false.
Hon. Jones in a statement issued to Newsmen in Lokoja while reacting to the misinformation, described the news as fake, baseless and a figment of the imagination of unscrupulous individuals who are out to create disaffection amongst teachers and workers in the State.
The Commissioner pointed out that the State Government is about to release the list of 1,500 successful applicants to be employed as Teachers in the State Secondary Schools in the first phase of ongoing teachers’ recruitment exercise, describing the report as ‘one from the pit of hell.’
“In the just concluded transparent exercise, nobody was asked to show his or her party membership card, whether APC or PDP, rather based on whether applicant possesses the requisite qualification to be a teacher in the State.”
Hon. Jones described the misinformation as one too many by the opposition, said the report is not logical, but one laced with lies and vendetta, lamented that people could go to the extreme to paint the State Government black for no just cause.
The Commissioner said at no time was any directive issued to Local Government Chairmen as contained in the report to compile names of Teachers not sympathetic to APC.
Wemi pointed out that just recently the Leadership of NULGE and NLC in the State publicly commended the State Government for the release of promotion, payment of promotion arrears for teachers and other workers benefits in the state.
He described those behind the misinformation as enemies and agents of Lucifer whose trade in stock is to cause destruction and disaffection amongst the peace loving teachers and workers in the State.
Hon. Jones was emphatic that no compilation of names of Teachers as falsely claimed by the mischief makers is ever contemplated, described the present administration of Gov Bello as one that has better repositioned the education sector to the admiration of the people since the creation of the State.
He noted that the State Government has in the last seven years under the leadership of Gov Bello made the building and renovation of primary schools across the State a top priority.
He said the GYB Model Science Secondary Schools across the State is another signature of the Gov. Bello’s administration that has remained a watershed in the state’s education history.
In the area of technical and vocational education, Hon. Jones disclosed that the State has reawakened all the moribund Technical Colleges in the State, disclosed that the Technical Colleges in Idah and others have been renovated, remodelled and are nearing completion with the aim of reawakening technical and vocational education.
