It would seem obvious that some one million of the approximately two million teachers deficit currently recognised by the Education Minister will have to come from the north. That's what equity demands. It is cheap talk for the NECO boss Prof Charkes Uwakwe to state that, “The minister was very clear on what our tasks and mandates are." There is nothing clear about the minister's comment. What he handed down was a watery wish list. The APC administration has had at least three years to develop a blueprint (with action plans) to tackle an old problem. To ask the 17 new chief executives to COME UP with an action plan in one month shows lack of seriousness on the part of the administration. What did Buhari have in mind for his people all this while he was gunning for office?
I have written some time ago that at the end of the day the (aggrieved) South will have to provide teachers IF and WHEN the North, currently represented by this Buhari administration, decides to send it's sons and daughters to school. Obviously that's not happening now. That is one more reason why Buhari must get his act together, retreat from the ruinous path he is now treading, erase the existing faultlines and desist from deliberately creating new ones. Otherwise the entire education/teacher's project is dead on arrival. If anyone knows of any other way the north can overcome the current teacher deficit without help from (and peace with) the south, please share it with us. I would want to know.
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