loot and fraudulently divert public funds, by using the newly-inaugurated 17 transition committee chairmen of the local government areas, as conduit pipe.
The party opined that the people of the state expected the governor and his government to initiate legitimate actions that would transparently instil proper utilization and deployment of local government allocations, remitted directly to the local government coffers, for purposes of driving development at the rural areas.
“This calls for serious concern; hence, it negates the whole essence of direct funding to the local government councils in the country. It is also disheartening upon remembering the past when local government councils meaningfully embarked on infrastructural and developmental projects, regularly paid salaries and veritably sustained micro and socio-economic programmes at the grassroots.
“Given the above scenario, the All Progressives Grand Alliance , Abia State, wishes to invite the anti-graft agencies especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to beam its searchlight on Abia council funds to henceforth monitor closely all financial activities in the 17 local government areas of Abia State.
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