LG Funds: NFIU Does Not Have Powers To Prosecute, Says Lawyer

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LG Funds: NFIU Does Not Have Powers To Prosecute, Says Lawyer.

“But I think they want to hide under their sister organisation, the EFCC because it has overwhelming powers to prosecute,” he said on Tuesday.to order over funds allocated to all Local Government Areas across the countryIn a statement by the NGF’s spokesman, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, the governors said the agency was dabbling into a matter that was beyond its mandate.

He alleged that most governors have rubber-stamps the local governments to the extent that about 80 per cent of the states don’t have elected local government chairmen.

 

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