Salaries: Gov Ahmed seeks removal of primary school teachers from LGAs

Kwara State Gov­ernor, Dr Abdul­fatah Ahmed, has called for the removal of primary school teachers’ salaries from local gov­ernment allocations in order to ease funding challenges at the coun­cil levels in the country.

Gov Ahmed, who also said that there was ur­gent need for the review of laws which inhibit state governments from being major players in telecommunications, energy, aviation, miner­al resources so that states could be more economi­cally viable and finan­cially self-sustaining, made the calls during an interface with Muslim scholars in Ilorin.

According to him, primary education is too important to be left at the mercy of local government areas who are becoming increas­ingly incapacitated to meet the challenges of modern governance.

“Most of them lack the financial require­ments of primary edu­cation especially pri­mary school teachers”, he said.

Ahmed said there was the need to expand sources of Internal­ly Generated Revenue of states by removing telecommunications, energy, aviation, ex­ploitation of mineral resources from the ex­clusivity of federal gov­ernment which already has a wider financial base.