The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) on Saturday raised alarm over plot by the Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-rufai to sack local government workers in the state. The National President of NULGE, Comrade Ibrahim Khaleed, who spoke on behalf of the union while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital also faulted the recent competency test conducted for teachers by the Kaduna state government.
He disclosed that the report of the exercise indicated that dead and retired teachers passed the test making the exercise questionable.
Khaleed, who is also the National Treasurer of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) also berated Govenor El-rufai for pecking the pass-mark at 75 per cent insisting that such mark was not obtainable in any examination.
"The governor is all out to downsize, he was never concerned about teachers’ competency in the state because we learnt reliably that he is trying to get loan from the World Bank and one of the conditions for the loan is that he must downsize. We also learnt that even dead people and people that retired long before he became governor passed the competency test,” he said.
On the sack of local government, Khaleed said;
“Immediately we got the news about the plan to sack 21,780 teachers for allegedly failing the competency test and 4,180 local government workers, we went to Kaduna and staged a protest. We stated our position clearly and our position is that the Kaduna State government must reverse the decision,” he said.
