Stakeholders reject handover of primary education to LGs

The clamour for Local Government autonomy has continued to gain more popularity among Nigerians, with many arguing that it would free and empower the third tier of government to perform its statutory function of meeting the basic needs of the common man at the grass roots.

They further argued that the autonomy would bring power closer to the people with the local councils empowered to independently assess the needs of the rural dwellers via direct interaction with them.

But one group has remained apprehensive over moves to grant autonomy to the local governments – teachers and other stakeholders in the education sector.

They fear that the autonomy may lead to the transfer of primary schools, currently under the states, via the State Universal Basis Education Boards, to the local governments, and have vowed to reject such…