Kogi State House of Assembly is to begin investigation on the recent recruitment exercise carried out by the State Science, Technical Education and Teaching Service Commission, STETSCOM.
The Speaker of the State Assembly, Hon. Aliyu Umar Yusuf disclosed this on Monday in Lokoja when the Executive Chairman of STETSCOM, Mrs Cicilia Cook led other management staff to defend the commission’s proposed 2024 budget.
According to him, the need to look into the recruitment and posting of the 1100 teachers is to check procedures and criteria used to grade them.
He noted that some of the individuals who passed the Computer Based Test, CBT, were not employed, as the recruitment did not reflect the spread across all local government areas of the state.
The member representing Ankpa I Lawal Akus, said the house should review the list of the teachers recruited recently to meet the state character.
In her reaction, Cook commended the effort of the lawmakers in ensuring that the education sector in the state developed.
Kogi Assembly to investigate recruitment of over 1000 teachers