Kogi State House of Assembly on Wednesday passed the #NotTooYoungToRun and State Assembly autonomy bills.
The teachers, Kogireports gathered, demanded that funding of primary education must remain the responsibility of the federal or state government through first line charge.
NUT is opposed to the issue of autonomy for local government councils without separating primary school teachers’ salaries. This, they believe, is the only way to save the basic and primary education from imminent collapse.
Primary school teachers are being owed salaries in most states supposedly due to the inability of the councils to provide the funds needed for payment of the salaries and the Union believe this has created a situation of discouragement and hopelessness which portends danger for public primary education and the future of the mass under-privileged children in the state.
According to the Special Assistant to Kogi Assembly Speaker on New Media, Abel Julius, 11 out of 15 Constitution Amendment Bills was passed by Kogi lawmakers.
Commenting on the local government autonomy bill impasse, the executive director of Youth Emancipation for the Society, Comrade Umar Dan’Assabe Muhammed stated that NUT’s petition is as a result of lack of information.
