LG autonomy: Teachers have nothing to fear — NYPC

A youth group, Nigeria Youth for Positive Change (NYPC) has said teachers in the country should not allow themselves to be misled about the gains an autonomous local government will bring to the development of the country
The group while blaming the national president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Mr Michael Alogba, for the recent sack of teachers in Kaduna and Ogun said Alogba has been trying to misinformed teachers on who will be responsible for payment of their salary when an autonomous local government system is achieved.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, national cordinator NYPC, Comrade Nasiru Kabir said teachers in the country have nothing to fear once full autonomy is granted to local government areas
He urged the the teachers to demand from their national president why he was not at the protest rally help by the NLC in Kaduna to protest against the sack of 22,000 teachers by the Kaduna state government of he had their interest at heart.
He wondered why the national leadership of the NUT will back the Joint state local government account which has been described as conduit of massive looting of local government funds by state governors and has led to massive underdevelopment of the local government areas.
Kabir explained that following the supreme court judgement of April 2004, payment of teachers salaries should be the responsibility of both state and local government.
He said besides, under the new agreement reached, there will be special account for the purpose of teachers salaries and other allowances
He said the youth coalition cannot understatnd the NUT president position even when their fear about teachers salary was well addressed in the bill passed by the national assembly for considering the salaries on first line charge by an edict of each state assembly when the bill is finally become a law.
He said, “obviously the NUP president has something to hide. There is something he certainly isn’t telling his members. But we usged teachers in the country to begin to ask necessary questions. Why was their national president conspicuously missing during the rally in Kaduna. In Ogun, teachers have been retired compulsorily, and the NUT president isn’t doing anything”
He therefore, appealed passionately to the teachers in Nigeria to support other major stakeholders in ensuring LG is liberated for prompt development of the grassroot

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