Osun: Amid protests, sacked teachers beg Adeleke for reinstatement

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Some teachers in Osun state whose appointments were affected by the Executive Order issued by Governor Ademola Adeleke on Monday thronged the streets of Osogbo protesting against their sacking.

The teachers who were protesting peacefully, pleaded with the Governor to revisit the Executive Order, with a view to reinstating them back into the state teaching service in order to reinstate their dignity as citizens of the state.

The affected teachers carried placards of various inscriptions such as “We Followed Due Process, Please Don’t Send Us Back To The Streets,” “We Lost Four Colleagues,” “Consider Our Plights,” “Osun State Students/Pupils Need Us,” “Please Rescue Us,” among others.

Speaking during a peaceful protest held in Osogbo, Adedeji Emmanuel explained that they are professionally qualified to take up the job and they had undergone vigorous screening during the recruitment exercise.

He explained that many of the newly recruited had graduated for about ten to fifteen years without doing anything before they later got employed by the immediate past Governor.

He appealed to all stakeholders and well-meaning citizens of the state to help them appeal to Governor Adeleke to reconsider them.

“I am one of the 1,500 newly recruited teachers for both primary and secondary schools in Osun. I was given an appointment letter on September 30th, 2022 and the process for this recruitment began in the year 2020 and all through till the year 2022 when we were told to pick up our appointment letters Immediately we were given appointment letters, and we all reported to our primary places of assignment.

“We have been dutiful patriotic citizens of this state and upon resumption in all these places of our assignment, we were gladly received by the teachers, students, and parents and teachers association.

“We work for about four months now and had no reward for our work until the new government under the leadership of Governor Ademola Adeleke ordered a review of our appointment.

“We are pleading with our Governor, all stakeholders, and well-meaning citizens of the state to plead with Governor to reconsider us and give us a positive response. We are dying in silence,” he added.

Also, Ishola Yunus, explained that several efforts have been made to plead with the governor but all to no avail.