They want to be part of the process where decisions that affect their lives are taken, especially at the grassroots level. And rightly so, because not only that broad participation of people in politics promotes good governance, it is also the pathway towards power devolution which is now the in-thing around the world.
By passing the autonomy bill into law, Ogun State government has opened up opportunities for accelerated development of the council areas. As Alexis de Tocqueville, another 19th century advocate of local governance succinctly put: “Local Governments can unlock local development better than central and state governments because of their local proximity and knowledge and the local specificity of their services.
But unfortunately, the politics of State/Local Government Joint Account brought about by the 1999 constitution made this third-tier of government almost irrelevant in the administration of the country as it eroded away the financial independence hitherto enjoyed by the local government. Section 162, paragraph 6, of the 1999 constitution established State Local Government Joint Account thereby subordinating them to the state government.
This is in keeping fate with the collective resolution of the stakeholders who had earlier agreed at a forum that all the 44 proposed alterations should be given accelerated concurrence by the House and then be transmitted to the National Assembly for onward transmission to Mr. President for his assent. It is their belief that the democratic tenets in our constitution would be further strengthened with the principle of separation of powers among the three tiers of government.
Good! The issue now is, how will the government finance those LCDA that the immediate past administration created, since federal government will only share allocation for 20 recognized local government in the state.
He should go to hell
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