Sunday, 18 January 2015

In whose interest please?

One of the ways governors steal our money is through an illegal and unconstitutional contraption called Joint Account. The scenario is, they collect all the  Local Government allocations to their state, give the chairmen enough to pay salaries/security stipend then simply swallow the rest, no questions asked.
Now the evil side of this action is that the Local Government is the third tier of governance in Nigeria and should get their allocations directly for their own peculiar development programmes.
The shock however is the that the national assembly gave the people an opportunity to assert the autonomy of the LGs, an amendment bill was sent to all state assemblies in Nigeria to vote on, guess what? They voted no and rejected autonomy for the Local Governments, it sounds unbelievable but it's true.
We need to ask our state assembly members whose interest they are protecting, now we know how they conspire to siphon our resources. We have the right to demand that they vote on this issue again, where your assembly member decides to go against your wishes, please remember that you have the power of recall.

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