Nasarawa State is ready to sack about 1,251 teachers without teaching qualifications as a seven-man disengagement committee has been inaugurated to carry out the exercise.

Executive Chairman, Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board (NSUBEB), Muhammad Musa Dan’azimi made the disclosure in Lafia while inaugurating a seven-man implementation committee to disengage all teachers without the mandatory teaching qualifications.

According to the Board Chairman, the disengagement is in accordance with the Federal Ministry of Education directive that has given the committee the go-ahead to carry out the assignments with due diligence, free of sentiments or favour.

Dan’azimi who was represented by the board Secretary, Hajiya Hashiya Ahmed, revealed that there were about 1,251 teachers without requisite teaching qualifications still teaching in primary schools across the 13 local government of the state.  He warned that there will be no room for unqualified teachers in the teaching profession in Nasarawa state.

Dan’azimi said the committee has been given the permission to take every necessary step to ensure that the affected teachers are registered with the National Teachers Institute (NTI) and College of Education, Akwanga to obtain requisite teaching qualifications.

In his remarks, Chairman of the implementation committee and Director, planning, Research and Statistics in the board, Isah Eyah, appreciated the management for considering them worthy and promised to validate the confidence reposed on them.

Recall that the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu had earlier warned unqualified teachers to either acquire the necessary teaching qualifications or to exit the profession.