The Nigeria
Police Force on Thursday said it had promoted 1,731 teachers out of the 2,200
that wrote the 2016/2017 promotional examination across the federation.
Ajao
Emmanuel, the Deputy Director, Human Resources, Force Education Headquarters,
Abuja, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria during the presentation of
letters of promotion to beneficiaries in the Lagos Zone.
The teachers
teach in schools owned by the police.
NAN reports
that 241 out of the 1,731 teachers from across the country that benefitted from
the promotion were from Lagos Zone comprising schools from Ibadan and Abeokuta.
Mr. Emmanuel
said the cut-off mark for the examination which held in November 2016 in Abuja
was 60 per cent.
He said that
not all members of staff who were not promoted failed the examination.
Some were
not promoted because there was no vacancy to accommodate them in the next
cadre, he said.
“So many
factors are usually considered in promotion in the Federal Civil Service and
most important is the vacancies available.
“So, it is
possible for somebody to pass an examination and the vacancy will not cover him
or her.
“For
example, 60 per cent was the cut-off mark; someone who scored 70 per cent might
have not been promoted because there was no vacancy to accommodate him or her.
“I am trying
to explain that for a particular cadre, there may be 20 vacancies and it is
possible for 28 candidates to pass the examination.
“All they do
is to take the highest scorers from 1 to 20 and the remaining eight will have
to repeat the examination next time,” he said.
Mr. Emmanuel
said while so many things were considered in creating vacancies, it is not
created by the Police Education Unit but by the Federal Civil Service.
He said that
the Police Education Unit had appealed to the Ministry of Interior and the Head
of Service to create more vacancies to enable more teachers to be promoted.
The Deputy
Director said regular promotion was important to motivate the teachers to put
in their best to their jobs, which would in turn produce excellent students.
“The
aspiration of a worker in any job at all is to continue rising to the top and
then retire with joy; so, promotion makes a worker fulfilled and gives him or
her the feelings that his or employer cares,” he said.
Mr.
Emmanuel, however, advised the promoted candidates to justify the promotion by
not resting on their oars on their jobs but to soar higher.
A
beneficiary, Felicia Ejeanyido, of the Police Children School, Idimu, expressed
joy for being promoted and lauded the authorities for the effort while
promising to put in more efforts in her job.
(NAN)
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