No fewer than 1,024 teachers in Ogun State found to have submitted forged certificates to gain employment and engaged in other irregularities have been suspended by the state government.
The affected teachers were among the 6,531 out of the 19,154 earlier screened in an exercise conducted by a firm of consultants, which verified their claims in the form of statement of results and attestation letters from over 50 higher institutions located across the country.
A detailed final report submitted to the government by the CITC Consulting indicated that 475 teachers were suspended for possessing forged certificates and not having their attestation letters confirmed by the institutions from which they presented them; 274 for not appearing for the screening; 236 for being outrightly unqualified; 12 for exceeding statutory length of service; 11 for age discrepancies; and 14 others were discovered to have died.
Two of the suspended teachers were considered to be impostors.
The Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, Chief Mufutau Ajibola, said the suspension takes immediate effect pending formal determination of their cases by the panel established in the Office of the Head of Service.
The documents, Ajibola added, is being compiled for presentation to the state police command for possible criminal prosecution of those indicted.
Ajibola described the exercise as thorough and restated the government’s commitment to flush out persons who, according to him, are “polluting a noble and respected profession”.
The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Barrister Segun Odubela, had earlier said the exercise is “about quality assurance of our human capital. All our investments to provide affordable quality education will only yield result if we have well qualified and motivated teachers in our classrooms”.
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