NGO slams Kogi for not conducting council election

 

 

A nongovernmental organization, ‘Conscience for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (CHRCR)’ has bemoaned  Kogi state government for  failing  to conduct local government council election in the last four years, saying the government lacks accountability.

The executive director, CHRCR, Comrade Idris Miliki, who stated this at the 6th Quarterly Review meeting organised for media and CSO on Anti Corruption, Transparency and Accountability, by CHRCR in partnership with Shehu Musa Yar’adua Foundation held in Lokoja, Tuesday , lamented that despite the federal allocations released to the councils in the last four years, Governor Yahaya Bello’s led administration denied the electorate the chance to vote for their representatives at the third tiers of governance.

He described as unacceptable the whopping sum of billions of naira budgeted for  Government House administration that is expected to  gulp  about 48 percent of the 2020 estimated budget, stressing that  “in real sense, it is not a revenue generating organizations.”

He urged the media and the civil society organisations to help in tracking accountability, anti corruption and transparency in the state.

“I am appealing to the media and CSOs to be courageous in carrying out in depth analysis and to help in instilling accountability and good governance.

“I wondered why the state government has failed to constitute the state Independent Electoral Commission for the conduct of local government election,” he said.

He described the 2020 Kogi budget as a photocopy of 2019 budget and urged the Kogi state House of Assembly to be responsible to the people and not to the executive arm of government.

He frowned at the rubber stamp nature of the present lawmakers, who could not add or subtract from the 2020 budget presented to them by the executive arm of government.

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