A LETTER TO GOV. SOLUDO FROM THE SUCCESSFULLY DOCUMENTED BUT DELISTED APPLICANTS IN THE JUST CONCLUDED TEACHERS’ RECRUITMENT EXERCISE

His Excellency
The Executive Governor Anambra State
Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo
Government House
Anambra

Your Excellency,

APPEAL FOR RECONSIDERATION OF SUCCESSFULLY DOCUMENTED BUT DELISTED APPLICANTS

1. We are deeply grateful to you for this opportunity, the first of its kind. We all watched with gladdened heart, the transparency with which the recruitment exercise was carried out. From the careful screening of the candidates during the two phases of the CBT exam, to the tight interview session. Thank you, Sir, for giving hope to the common man.
2. When the list for the successful candidates was released, we gladly saw our names and proceeded to Awka for the documentation process which was also successful. However, when the final lists of successful candidates were released by the ASUBEB and PPSSC, much to our chagrin, our names were nowhere to be found as we were unceremoniously delisted.
3. The delisted candidates all scaled through the various processes of recruitment; with a large number of us having aggregate scores of 60 and above. Based on Your Excellency’s merit criterion, we all deserve to be recruited, having passed the CBT exams and interview, and successfully documented.
4. During Your Excellency’s address to the 5,000 recruited teachers at the International Conference Center, Awka, we were told that all those who had scaled through the processes would be employed, irrespective of the presence or absence of any educational qualifications.
5. The reasons we were given for having our names delisted were either that we do not have any educational qualification, or that the courses we studied are not ‘teachable’. Courses like Linguistics, Mass Communication, Library and Information Science, Political Science, amongst others. Graduates who read these courses can teach a wide range of subjects in our secondary schools, hence our confusion at being delisted.
6. Some of us received the text message informing us to come for our appointment letters but on getting there, no letters were issued to us, and no explanation given for the omission.
7. Your Excellency, again, we commend you for your kindness and transparency during this massive recruitment process. We are thus appealing to your fatherly heart to reconsider our fate. Many of us travelled from different states to Awka to identify with this journey towards reviving our educational sector. We spent money, stood under rain and sun, and risked several other things just to ensure we get to the top. Please, Your Excellency, reconsider us.
8. In conclusion therefore, we strongly believe in your morality and equity, knowing that you will listen to our appeal and make us smile like our contemporaries. To make our State’s education sector stand out, we need great brains and we strongly believe that having scaled through all the stages of this exercise, we are fit for the task.
9. In the event that we cannot be absorbed into our primary and secondary schools, we appeal to Your Excellency to absorb us into other arms of the civil service commission. Please, do not let our efforts and sacrifices go to ruin, Your Excellency.
10. May God Almighty continue to bless and strengthen you in the discharge of your duties to our great state.

LONG LIVE YOUR EXCELENCY.
LONG LIVE ANAMBRA STATE.