Govs’ conspiracy slowing down LG autonomy – NULG

President, National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel, has declared that governors’ conspiracy is slowing down the passage of the proposed bill for local government autonomy.
He spoke yesterday at a oneday sensitisation workshop for stakeholders, media and trade unions from the North-west geopolitical Zone, organised by PERL, a Non-Governmental Organisation, in Kano.
According to him, the conspiracy was neatly crafted by governors to put on hold the agitation for the autonomy.
He noted that the issue of monopolising and domiciling the funds accruing to the accounts of the third tier of governance in the name of joint accounts by state governors, had taken a disastrous toll on the quest for speedy transformation of such respective local councils, and made millions of people to lose confidence in the governors’ resolve to support the autonomy.
Khaleel said: “Since the sensitisation campaign we have embarked on, the issue of autonomy to be assented to by our respective legislators in the Northwest geo-political zone comprising seven states, we have discovered that it is only in Sokoto state that such a bill had been assented to.
So, you can clearly comprehend the simple fact that governors’ conspiracy is working in this direction.
“It is the same trend that is prevailing all over the country.
The issue of granting autonomy to local government is too important to be ignored.
Our legislators should come to grapple with the fact that they were voted to power based on the unfettered confidence the electorate reposed in them.
If you kill the issue of autonomy, you are doing a great disservice to the electorate.”

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