By GBENGA
ARIYIBI
The face -off
between Ekiti
State
Government and
teachers in the
state over the
conduct of
competence and
assessment test
slated for
tomorrow has
taken a twist, as
the umbrella
body of the
unions, Nigeria
Union of
Teachers and
Academic Staff
Union of
Secondary
Schools (ASUSS)
have directed
their members to
stay away from
the designated
centres
earmarked for
the exams.
The state
government and
the leadership of
the two unions
have been
embroiled in a
controversy over
the conduct of
what is
otherwise
tagged as the
Teachers
Development
Needs
Assessment
( TDNA) test, a
development
that prompted
the state
government to
shift the test
thrice this year.
A last-minute
attempt to
persuade the
teachers to
participate in the
exam failed
when the state
government
lobbied some
prominent
members of the
state traditional
rulers to get the
teachers to
submit
themselves for
the exercise as
leaders of the
two unions NUT
and ASUSS led by
Mr. Sola Adigun
failed to turn in
for the meeting.
According to
Chief Wale
Oyeniyi, the
Principal
Assistant
Secretary-General
of the NUT, the
decision to stay
away from
designation
centres was said
to have been
taken at a special
congress of the
union held on
Wednesday.
The communique
issued at the end
of the congress
read in part, “the
teachers have
declared an
industrial dispute
and there is no
going back on our
decision against
the Teachers
Development
Needs
Assessment
(TDNA) of the
state
government.”

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