NUT Advocates Transfer of Primary Education from Local Government to State Governments

Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has called for the transfer of basic education from the local governments to the state governments.

The union wants the constitution to be amended to strip the local government of the responsibility of funding the primary education.

National President of NUT, Comrade Audu Amba, made the call at the ongoing first quadrennial delegate’s conference of the union’s federal wing in Abuja.

He said the first nine year education should be the core responsibility of the state governments, and not the local governments.

According to him, local government funding of primary education is impacting negatively on the learning and teaching in primary schools.

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Amba said that the first nine years of basic education should be made a core responsibility of the state governments.

He said, while the union was not against local government autonomy, the funding of primary education should not be the responsibility of the tier of government.

It is only when the funding of basic education is made a core constitutional responsibility of state governments that the toxic phenomenon of non-payment of salaries of primary school teachers will be a thing of the past across the states of the federation, he said

Amba added that the funding of primary education by local governments had been affecting learning and teaching at the foundational level of education.

He, therefore, called on the Federal Executive Council to initiate an amendment to the 1999 Constitution to address the concerns.