By Gloria Emmanuel The Nigeria Union of Teachers has lauded the various State Houses Assembly for voting against the proposed Local Government autonomy in the ongoing Constitutional Amendment.
In a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Hwande, in Abuja, the NUT said it rejected the Local Government autonomy to forestall a situation where primary education is plunged into uncontrollable crisis in the country.
The leadership of the Union insisted granting total autonomy to Local Government Councils would lead total collapse of primary education in Nigeria.
“Never again shall the primary school teachers in Nigeria be returned to bondage, suffering, penury, deprivation and subjugation through the unpatriotic and inhuman control of salaries by the sadist Local Government operatives,” NUT President, Michael Olukoya ha said.
The statement reads further, “This will also lead to total collapse of the primary education in Nigeria consequent upon uncontrollable industrial actions that will ensue in all LG councils.
“We note with delight the proactive stand of the State Houses of Assembly whose vote on the touchy issue of Local Government Autonomy will go a long way to retain the State and Local Government Joint Account, and sustain their joint responsibility in the payment of Primary School teacher’s salaries and developing the nation’s public primary education system.
“This noble action of our state legislators stands in defense to protect and advance the educational fortunes of pupils in public primary schools.
“Posterity will judge them right to the glory of our children and the generation yet to be born,” he said.
