THE National President, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Alhaji Ambali Olatunji, has said the root the security and socio-economic challenges facing the country was traceable to the mismanagement of the local government system by state governors.
Calling for local government autonomy, Olatunji described the Joint Account Allocation Committee as a conduit pipe for stealing money meant for the third tier of government. Speaking during a prayer programme organised to press home the agitation for council autonomy, Olatunji said the appointment of surrogates and political jobbers into leadership positions in the councils was not acceptable.
The programme was organised on Wednesday by Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees at the Abuja Municipal Area Council. Olatunji said, “We need a politically-free and financially dependent local government administration. The local government has been raped over time; it has witnessed systematic destruction as a result of misrule and stealing of local government funds, thereby militating against progressive development at the grassroots level.
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