 Following President Buhari's move in transmitting to the Senate, our bill to increase the retirement age for teachers in the country from 60 to 65 years. The immediate past president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers Michael Olukwaya says it's a welcome idea which is long overdue. Plus TV Africa's correspondent Destiny Momo has more. There is no doubt that teachers constitute an essential part of institutional building. Hence their role cannot be overemphasized. They transmit knowledge from day to day which ultimately transcends one generation to the other. President Mahmoud Buhari has transmitted the bill concerning teachers' retirement age and service year to the Senate. Now the citizens are asking if this bill is very important at this time. You see if you check the work of teachers is more or less of standing and there is no way you can cheat nature. I'm strongly supporting the bill, increasing the retirement plan age for teachers. If they could extend the age of the teachers, the young ones should not get more chance to get into practice so it will be unfair. Don't need teachers to retire now. We don't need that at all. What we need is how the economy will move forward. So I don't understand how Nigerian economy and teachers relate. You can't just take off your chance and take off your citizens. Things are very hard. It's a better thing that the government did. Michael Olukwaya praises the president's efforts in transmitting the bill saying it will be for the good of teachers and the public as young graduates shy away from the teaching practice. He says he looks forward to the reality of the bill. A lot of young ones are not interested, they are not motivated into the sector because of what you know, your life knows, will share. So extending the year of service right now will help in retaining better hands and the community effect of that is that quality education will be further enhanced. Our teacher will request it to be under anonymity says she prefers AFT to pay gratuities instead. Think what we should do is make sure that we have the age. We don't be so marked. We just try to live on time because we make up rules of saying I know that it's because of the money. But they are being said and used to over at that age there are new technology for development and over which is difficult to address. But when you employ new young staff, they are still very strong. They can teach 20-30 years. The decision to increase the retirement age in seven years of teachers was postponed to section 58 subsection 2 after 1999 constitution as amended. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.