Kwara: Drama as shortlisted applicants for govt job fail drug test, see details

• At slightest 8 applicants of the 1,800 shortlisted for Kwara Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) jobs person tested affirmative for outlawed drugs
• The president of Kwara Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Bello Abubakar, said the applicants mislaid their slots to the adjacent champion campaigner successful the exercise
• Abubakar shared that the 8 shortlisted candidates were tested for hard drugs specified arsenic benzodiazepine, tramadol, cotinine, and amphetamine, 'which are considered unsafe for quality health'

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Ilorin, Kwara state - At slightest 8 applicants who were earlier shortlisted for teaching positions successful the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) person failed cause tests and consequently mislaid their occupation offers.

This was announced successful a connection released connected Monday, April 14, by The TESCOM chairman, Bello Taoheed Abubakar, obtained by Legit.ng.

The cause trial was conducted by the NDLEA with the afloat enactment of the authorities government.
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Abubakar noted that the affected individuals tested affirmative for outlawed substances, including benzodiazepine, tramadol, cotinine, and amphetamine, during the mandatory screening workout conducted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The TESCOM brag explained:

“A large accusation of this improvement is that the affected individuals volition beryllium replaced by the candidates who are adjacent to them successful show from their respective section authorities areas.“The thought is to nonstop an unmistaken connection astir the authorities government’s zero tolerance for cause abuse. We person a work of attraction not to exposure small children to cause maltreatment nether immoderate circumstance.”

He added that the workout was carried retired with the afloat enactment of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, who had earlier insisted that the recruitment indispensable beryllium based strictly connected merit and escaped of immoderate governmental oregon idiosyncratic interference.

His words:

“Again, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has etched his sanction successful golden for again insisting that recruitment into the teaching assemblage should beryllium strictly meritorious and devoid of immoderate practices that whitethorn jeopardize prime learning successful our schools. He (Governor AbdulRazaq) has besides proven that helium is simply a antheral who is sold to giving each Kwaran a just chance.”

Legit.ng learnt that the cause test, which began connected April 9 and ended connected April 12, was portion of a broader strategy by the Kwara authorities to guarantee that lone qualified and sound-minded individuals are employed to thatch successful the state’s secondary schools.

The trial was coordinated by the peculiar adjunct to the politician connected cause abuse, prevention and control, Mukail Olamilekan Aileru.

As antecedently announced, 1,800 applicants were shortlisted from a competitory process that included online applications, computer-based testing, and interviews.

Eight shortlisted applicants neglect Kwara TESCOM suffer slots aft cause test.
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The database includes 790 candidates to thatch Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects, 581 for halfway subjects, 370 for specialised subjects, and 59 for method subjects.

The TESCOM noted that the affected individuals volition beryllium replaced by the adjacent champion performers from their respective section authorities areas, successful enactment with the commission’s committedness to fairness and transparency.

Kwara recruitment: Applicants talk out

Meanwhile, the improvement has sparked reactions from immoderate applicants who assertion they were initially shortlisted but aboriginal discovered their presumption changed connected the recruitment portal.

Usman Ridwanullahi, 1 of the applicants, stated that his congratulatory connection mysteriously changed to rejection 'without immoderate due explanation' from TESCOM.

Ridwanullahi said:

“I was 1 of Kwara TESCOM 2025 recruitment applicants wherever I scored 70% successful the CBT workout and subsequently attended the interview. But contiguous erstwhile the quality of the shortlist was broadcast, I rapidly checked my portal and I saw ‘you person been shortlisted for employment’ but 3 hours aboriginal erstwhile I revisited the portal I saw different happening which is ‘you person not been shortlisted.’”

Another applicant, Akanbi Funsho besides expressed his concern.

He said:

“Infact, the aforesaid contented here. 80% successful CBT and 48 implicit 50 successful Interview... I bash not recognize wherefore I did not get the occupation eventually."People are saying it's a glitch and I don't hold with them. I scored 80% and I was commended during the carnal interview. I logged in, I saw ‘you person been shortlisted’ past aboriginal it changed to ‘you are not shortlisted’ 1 time later."

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