LG Autonomy: Kwara Speaker backs primary school teachers' salaries removal from councils list

Date: 2017-07-12

Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Dr. Ali Ahmad says inspite of consensus building around the local government having its autonomy, measures must be put in place to remove primary school teachers' salaries in the councils' list.

Ahmad who expressed sympathy with primary school teachers' situation across the country noted that it was  sacrosanct that  payment of their salaries as and when due must be taken into consideration before any decision would be made regarding the local government autonomy.

The speaker, in a release issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Shuaib Abdulkadir ,
said this while addressing executives of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kwara State Chapter who were on a courtesy visit to his office recently.

He pledged that the House of Assembly Speakers' Forum would look at the matter holistically while putting finishes touch to amendment in the constitution.

The Associate Professor of Law who lamented that the nation was  getting it wrong in the education sector stressed that as a stakeholder, he believed if nothing was done to arrest the trend on time, the educational system would soon collapse completely.

According to him, "We are getting it wrong in the education sector because the foundation, the primary education is faulty".

He added, "Now, we have gone far with the constitutional amendment. consensus is building around giving autonomy to local government but you are right, we share your fear that if that happens local government as we have it today can not handle the primary education, there is no magic about it".

"Primary school education should not be subject to fear of payment or nonpayment of salaries, it must be constant. It must be as constant as the salary of the governors, the speakers and other political office holders. It must be automatic".

"Yes, if the local government is having its autonomy, how are we sure that the local government can pay salaries? This area will have to be addressed otherwise there is no amount of bailout that you can give it won't solve the problem".

Earlier, the Chairman of Kwara State Nigeria Union of Teachers, Comrade Musa Abubakar in his address had clarified that the union was not in anyway antagonising local government autonomy but frowned at primary school education being at the mercy of the local government.

While lamenting series of hardship being encountered by his members, Abubakar regretted that larger percentage of people in the society now prefer enrolling their children in private schools due to series of anomalies in public schools.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Naira Redesign     Solomon Edoja     Adisa Logun     Tunde Yusuf     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Al-Ilory     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Maigida     Kanu Agabi     Fatimoh Lawal     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Agboola Abdulraheem     Bankole Omishore     Oke-opin     Sayomi     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Leke Ogungbe     Kwara 2019     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Emmanuel Bello     Peter Amogbonjaye     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Joseph Bamigboye     Alao Ayotunde     Kayode Ogunlowo     Olaosebikan     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Emir Of Lafiagi     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Umaru Saro     Oba Abdulraheem     Jimba Babatunde     General Hospital, Ilorin     Moshood Bakare     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Rashidi Yekini     Alikinla     Fatimat Saliu     Abdulkarim Adisa     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Ajuloopin     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Michael Nzwekwe     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Twitter     Niguel Gallando Marcias     CCEPE     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Salman Suleiman     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     National Information Technology Development Agency     IEDPU     Kale Ayo     Quareeb Islamic Association     CACOVID     Revenue Court     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Frootify     Sodiya     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Village Alive Development Association     Omoniyi     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Mohammed Lawal     Earlyon Technologies     Ibrahim Mohammed     Monthly Sanitation     Ibrahim Mashood     Olomu     Kawu Baraje    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sam Onile     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Al-Hikmah Radio     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Samari     Abdulkadir Orire     Public Holiday     Solomon Edojah     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Alliance For Democracy     Toyosi Thomas     Alao Ayotunde     John Dara     ANCOPPS     Danladi     Emir Of Lafiagi     Dan-Kazeem     Kayode Yusuf     Kabir Shagaya     Kayode Ishola     Moronfoye     Awili Pedro     Mohammed Lawal     Kayode Zubair     CCB     Guber Aspirant     NIPOGA     GRA     Femi Oladiji     Ifelodun     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Kayode Ogunlowo     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Tafidan Kaiama     Erubu     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Fatai Olodo     Asa     Radio SBS     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Surajudeen Akanbi     Esuwoye     Ilorin Muslim Community     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Oloyede     Women Radio     Kwara South     Haleeman Salman     Musibau Akanji     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     March 28     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Danhawa     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Bank Of Industry     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Yakubu Shaaba     Shuaibu Yaman     Musa Abdullahi     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Hassan A. Saliu     AbdulGafar Tosho     Sabi     JSSCE     Pategi     Susan Modupe Oluwole     General Hospital, Offa     Oladimeji Thompson     Tunji Moronfoye     Col. Taiwo     Yinka Aluko     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     KW-GIS     Tosin Saraki     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Ile Arugbo