Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, said the National Assembly will push for the removal of teachers’ salaries from recurrent expenditure in the national budget in order to stem the growing tide of arrears of salaries owed teachers by state governments.
Saraki, who made this disclosure in a brief chat with newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State during an inspection tour of facilities at the proposed Sheikh Muhammed Kamaldeen University, in the state capital, said senators would engage the executive arm of government over the proposal once they resume from their current recess.
He promised to contribute to the take-off of the university where his late father, Dr.Olusola Saraki, was a benefactor.
Saraki, who pleaded with Nigerians on the current hardship being faced due to the state of the national economy, assured that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government in power is not out to deceive Nigerians and definitely has the capability to steer the nation through the period of hardship into prosperity.
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He said part of the intervention of the senate on the issue of the national economy must have played a significant role in the rise in federal allocation to states for the month of July, as he promised that the next few months would see to the resolution of the salary crises across the local government areas in the country.
But he canvassed dialogue with members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) whose activities have been one of the factors crippling the national economy, saying the federal government must be ready to sit down with ‘whoever’ can be instrumental to the return of normalcy in the region.
His words: “Before the Senate went on recess, we spent a day discussing this non-payment of primary school teachers’ salaries across the nation. This is an area that should not be left in the hands of the local government areas. The matter now is beyond local councils. It is even beyond states.”
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