Akure – Ondo state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has ruled out mass promotion for both primary and secondary school teachers in the state.
Akeredolu said promotion of teachers in the Sunshine state would now be based on competence, efficiency and effective service delivery.
”Performance based on competent delivery of services would henceforth be the yardstick for promotion of teachers in our state.
“As a government policy, we will no longer mass-promote teachers. It is an executive order. Whoever is not qualified will not be promoted,” he said.
The governor disclosed this while playing host to the executive committee of the state chapter of the Association of Nigerian Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) in his Office in Akure, the state capital.
Akeredolu, who said his administration could not afford to recruit new teachers owing to huge wage bill, disclosed that some idle civil servants who read education-related courses would be trained and deployed to schools.
Promising that diaries, registers, lesson notes and other essential materials would be made available to schools as soon as possible, the governor charged teachers in the state to always give their best.
He also promised to convene an education summit that would enable government and stakeholders brainstorm on how to reposition the education sector, adding that public schools across the state would be renovated.
Michael Adeyanju, ANCOPSS president, commended Akeredolu for defraying the debt owed the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) which caused a delay in the release of the May/June 2017 WASSCE result.
Adeyanju lamented the acute shortage of teaching and non-teaching staff in schools occasioned by retirement, stating that the last set of teachers were recruited in 2007.
He urged the governor to approve payment of running grants to schools to enable them offset their debts and take off effectively for the new session.
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