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Governor Ibikunle
Amosun
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The Ogun State Government has fired at least six officials of
its Ministry of Education over an ‘offensive’ Senior School English language
summary passage which formed part of questions set by an examiner. An examiner, Adegbenro
Joel, was alleged to have prepared the English language exams questions for the
third term academic session of the State Unified Examination in public
secondary schools. The exam had a
summary passage that took a critical look at the alleged negligence of
education by government.
PREMIUM TIMES report
continues:
The controversial summary
passage read, “There is no arguing about the fact that the government is merely
paying lip service to the development of the education. It is true that a lot
of money is being spent on education sector but, with little or no impact felt
by the people, except where we want to deceive ourselves.
“Many school run by the
government which were formally known for academic excellence have suddenly lost
their prestige and are living on past glory. 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.”
Governor Ibikunle Amosun
reportedly got infuriated after his attention was called to the passage, and
allegedly ordered the sacking of the officials of the ministry directly in
charge of that examination.
Reliable government
sources said those fired over the development include an acting Permanent
Secretary, Folashade Oresegun; three directors including, Ganiyu Odunsi, and a
deputy director, curriculum and evaluation, simply identified as Mr.
Majekodunmi.
The examiner, who is a
teacher at Mayflower School, was also sacked, our sources said.
Other sources said the
dismissal of Messrs Oresegun and Odunsi was later converted to compulsory
retirement while the four other affected officials remain dismissed.
When contacted,the
Secretary to the State Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa, said he was not competent to
comment on the matter.
He said “the issue is a
civil service matter, the best person to comment is the state Head of Service.
Please call Head of Service”.
But when contacted, the
Head of Service, Modupe Adekunle, said “I am aware that not all of them were
dismissed, some were terminated, some compulsorily retired.
“When the issue came up,
the state government put in the necessary process, a panel was set up to
investigate and based on their recommendations, the civil service commission
has to decide. It is a decision that has been related to the affected officers.
“The normal process was
that a panel was set up, the report forwarded to the Civil Service Commission
for the civil servants, the Teaching Service Commission, for the teachers.
“The decision was in line
with the civil service rule, due process was followed to the latter.”
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