Date: 2016-08-19

The Kwara State Government is set to sack 516 teachers 'illegally' employed by the State Teaching Service Commission as recommended by a panel of enquiry. This is part of findings of an Administrative Panel of Enquiry instituted by the state Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed on the illegal recruitment into the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission.

The commission found that the State Government has lost over N400m since 2014 due to illegal recruitment of 516 employees by the State Teaching Service Commission. The Chairman of the Panel, Alhaji Yusuf Kawu Daibu, while presenting the panel's report to the State Governor, said the panel discovered that the Commission illegally employed 965 employees instead of the 449 approved by the governor in 2014.

Alhaji Daibu said the selection and recruitment were "haphazardly done as there were no records of shortlisted candidates or record of an interview panel that should have formed the basis of the final list of those recruited".

The panel recommended, among other things, that the recruitments should be reviewed and limited to the 449 by considering "the genuine need of the Teaching Service Commission for additional hands especially in Mathematics, the Core Sciences and English Language".