The Chairman of the Osun State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Amudah Wakeel, has kicked against the clamour for Local Government autonomy.
According to him, granting autonomy to local government councils will cripple primary education in the country.
He said this in an interview with newsmen, on the sidelines of a protest staged by teachers at the State House of Assembly complex in Osogbo, the capital state.
Wakeel warned that teachers' salaries would begin to suffer as soon as local government councils became autonomous because the councils lacked the financial capacity to fund primary education.
The NUT chairman also proposed that budgetary allocations to states from the federation account should be reviewed up in favor of the states in order to guarantee uninterrupted primary education in the country.
In the alternative, he said, the salaries of primary school teachers should be paid through the Universal Basic Education Commission from the first line charge from the Federation Account.
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