WAEC: Deputy governor-elect blames poor performance on teachers’ motivation

The Deputy Governor-elect in Ekiti State, Dr. Kolapo Olusola, has blamed the poor performance of students in public examinations, including the West Africa School Certificate, on poor motivation of teachers.

Olusola said this in an interview with journalists in Osogbo on Thursday.

He spoke on the sideline of the inauguration of Pastor Tope Adeyemo as the President of Christ Apostolic Church Student Association and district council chairmen.

The deputy governor-elect, who is a lecturer at the Department of Building, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife said that apart from providing facilities, learning and teaching environment, teachers who were the executors of any educational policy should be well motivated before they would give their best.

He explained that teachers who were not well paid and those whose wages were not regular should not be expected to give their best because they would have divided loyalty on their job.

He said, “ Teachers are not well motivated and that is partly responsible for failure in public examination. For example, the 27 and a half per cent increment for teachers was paid before the current administration in Ekiti State assumed office. But it was stopped when they came in, with that you cannot expect the teachers to give in the best.

“My Principal, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, who loves teachers and everybody very well, is coming to office very soon. He is coming to do what he did to transform the education sector in the state when he came into power in 2003.

“Ekiti was ranked 35th in WAEC performance before he came into office in 2003. He came in and the state was ranked number 7 in WAEC performance until he was forced out in 2006. The state has gone back to number 34 but this will be changed again.”

He said that teachers were central to the success of any educational reform and they should be trained on the job and well motivated if the government wanted the best from them.

The new CACSA president said schools, especially public schools, were producing morally decadent pupils because of lack of knowledge of God. He said the Holy Ghost should be allowed to work on children as well as the youths, saying this would ensure transformation in the country

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