The popular perception of LG system is that local governments are sites of jobs for the boys from generous governors.
There are too many issues about state and local government relations for our governors to limit arguments about who should manage the funds allocated from national revenue to subnational governments to strict constructionist interpretation of provisions of the constitution in respect of state/local government account.
Since the advent of post-military governance in 1999, the level of government with the least experience of and benefit from democratic governance has been the local government unit. Citizens in most states since 1999 have not enjoyed the right to choose local government chairs and councillors to govern them as they should. Many local governments have been ruled in the last 24 years by appointed chairmen functioning as sole administrators.
The most important issue thrown up by the insistence of NFIU to ensure that local government allocations get to the local communities that own such funds in full and on time is about how to extend proper democratic rule to where it should matter most. Undoubtedly, governors are right to insist that they should have a say in the development of sub-units of their states.
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