The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has decried massive corruption in the state’s teachers recruitment process conducted Teacher’s Service Commission (TSC).
Naija News reports that Governor Sule said 80 percent of the teachers recruited could not write acceptance letters.
He stated this on Wednesday while he hosted the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), in Lafia.
While responding to a request by the State’s Chairman of CAN, Sunday Emma, for him to absorb the 1000 recruited teachers by TSC, the Governor noted that he would be killing the state’s educational system. 
“You are asking me to absorb them. Reverend, look at it two ways. I am not saying that I want to cause some people problems. I was told some of these people who paid money are not even qualified to teach. I was told some of them have given as much as ₦700, 600 . These are people who would be paid less than ₦100, 000.
“I was told 80 percent of them could not even write acceptance letters. If you are the Governor Sir, and you are being told all these. If we are helping them, we are not helping our educational system. That means we can completely forget about our desire to reform the educational system,” he said.
New Recruitment Exercise Will Be Conducted
Governor Sule explained that his administration constituted a committee to look into how to revamp the state’s education sector. He said his government implemented all recommendations concerning infrastructure and learning equipment and decided to hand over the recruitment of teachers to TSC.
He pointed out that while he gave a directive for 1000 teachers to be recruited, TSC brought 1000,50 slots. He stated that most of the teachers were employed on connections.
“They brought to me among the 1000, 50 slots because they know there are a lot of people that would approach me to ask for slots. I said no, don’t give me any fifty. Go ahead and employ all of them based on merit. I don’t even have a single slot. The reason is that our educational system in the state is grossly decayed and we need to bring it up. If we don’t have qualified teachers if we employ teachers based on this-one-knows-this-one, we may not have the kind of good teachers that we are looking for,” he explained.
The Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum emphasized that most of the teachers recruited have also declined to teach in villages.
“You cannot bring people who cannot teach, who will refuse to go to the villages where we need teachers, choosing to remain in the cities. They have to remain in Lafia, Akwanga, Keffi, Karu. Some of them don’t even want to go to Toto to talk less of Gudi. These are the problems we are facing,” he noted.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor urged CAN to support his policy for standard education in the state. He maintained that a new recruitment exercise will be organized.
“I don’t want you to feel that you have pleaded with me, and I have refused to help. In reality, I don’t have any problem helping whomever, but I don’t want to bastardize our education system,”
“Let our selection of competent teachers come from there so that they can be given equal opportunity.
“This time around, we will not allow these types of people to engage them. We cannot get it right if we fail to do the right thing. My dream is to get it right in Nasarawa State. That is the dream of my colleague. But we can’t get it right except if we are honest to ourselves,” he added.
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