The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has called on the Federal Government to ensure that the 500,000 teaching staff to be employed into the nation’s basic and secondary schools are professional teachers.
The Union made this known in Abuja on Tuesday in a statement through its Secretary General, Obong Ikpe Obong.
In the statement, NUT noted that the policy was a laudable one which deserved commendation but it must not however be used as a means to compensate political affiliates.
Obong said: “This planned policy of the Federal Government should only accommodate professional teachers – graduate teachers and NCE holders and not quacks and personnel who have not been duly trained as teachers no matter their qualifications.”
“The NUT will support the Federal Government in the actualisation of this policy but wishes to caution the government against the temptation of using this policy as a means of compensation for political patronage as it was the practice in the past.