Edo Teachers Refuses To participate in Competency Test.

Members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Edo state who have been at loggerheads with
the state government over the resolve by government to conduct a competency test for the
teachers, lost their case at a townhall meeting which held at Imaguero hall Benin City last
Tuesday, February 25, 2014.
The Governor Adams Oshiomhole led administration had insisted on the competency test after


the verification exercise embarked upon by government disclosed that some of the teachers
falsified their ages. Apart from that, some were found incompetent to teach because they came
into the system through one official or the other.

It would be recalled that sometime last year when the governor paid an unscheduled visit to some schools, Oshiomhole and journalists were embarrassed when some of the teachers interviewed could not speak English. During the screening exercise for teachers which was conducted last year, one Mrs Augusta Odenwigbe who was asked to read an affidavit she swore to declare her age, to the amusement of all she could not read it. Rather than read “I solemnly”,
she said, “one Solomon’ to the bewilderment of the governor and other people who were
around. And Mrs Odenwigbe had spent twenty years in that school. As a result, the state
government insisted on the test with a view to ascertain the number of qualified teachers.
But the NUT rejected the exercise saying that it was a ploy by the state government to sack
teachers. Several meetings were called by the government with a view to convince the teachers
on why the test was necessary but that effort was frustrated by the teachers who vowed never to
participate in the test.
Source>> http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/face-unending-war-edo-teachers-edo-govt-competency-test/