Amosun sacks 6 education workers, 1 teacher for doing their jobs… and saying the truth

For setting an examination question, deemed to be offensive, 7 people have been dismissed from their jobs in Ogun state.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun, has reportedly ordered the sacking of six officials of the state Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and a secondary school teacher, over the examination question.

Punch reports that the crime of the dismissed workers was the comprehension passage in the English Language examination conducted by the ministry for the Unified Examination in Public Secondary Schools for the third term of the 2014/2015 academic session.

The passage, which the state government deemed offensive was Section C, where the pupils were asked to summarise a comprehension passage on a policy defect on education.

To the state government, the critical passage was a slap on its face.

The section read in part:

“There is no arguing about the fact that the government is merely paying lip service to the development of education. It is true that a lot of money is being spent on the education sector but with little or no impact felt by the people, except where we want to deceive ourselves.

“Many schools run by the government, which were formerly known for academic excellence have suddenly lost their prestige and are living on past glories. No wonder, many parents and guardians are threateningly left with only one option, to withdraw their wards from these schools to other ones that are better managed.

“The evidences to show that the government is not doing enough to assist in the development of education are many. Even pupils in both primary and secondary schools can volunteer a good list on their finger tips.

“One of the numerous indications is the government’s inability to pay running cost to schools. The running cost is the token amount per pupil paid to school administrators to run the affairs of the school in a term. This has been neglected to pile up for several academic sessions.

“Another one is the regular poor conduct of terminal examinations. These examinations are not usually conducted as and when due. The government may have one excuse or the other, but real educationists know that appropriate timing is a strong factor in the process of Continuous Assessment (CA) of students. Thus, a situation, where for instance, the first term examination is shifted to second term is an outright departure from the norms and ethics of Continuous Assessment.”

Those sacked workers include two Grade Level 17 officers, Folashade Oresegun, who was the Director, Education Support Services, and Rotimi Odunsi, who was the Director, Curriculum Development and Evaluation, as well as a Grade Level 16 officer, Majekodunmi Oluwole.

Others are a Grade Level 10 officer, E.O. Asegbe, a Grade Level 8 officer, Taylor Damilola , and an English Language teacher in Mayflower Secondary School, Ikenne, Joel Adegbenro.

 

One comment

  1. this will serve as a deterrent to others, who may not be able to differentiate between being a civil servant and politicians.

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