The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has demanded that the 1999 Constitution be amended so that state governments would be solely responsible for basic education, and not local governments.
This was a request made by the National President of the union, Comrade Audu Amba in Abuja during the First Quadrennial Delegates’ Conference of the NUT Federal Wing.
He stated that the state governments should be tasked with overseeing the first nine years of basic education, and that doesn’t mean that the union is against the local government autonomy.
The toxic practice of primary school teachers’ salaries not being paid will only end when state governments are required by the constitution to fund basic education as the funding by local government is affecting the learning and teaching at the basic level and this will apply to all of the federation’s states.
He urged the Federal Executive Council to begin the amendment of the 1999 constitution to address the issues.
