The Senate said the dialogue should involve the governors, state legislators, local government officials, civil society organisations, community leaders and others.
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“Local governments, once major employers, are financially constrained and unable to hire the necessary staff. This surge in unemployment creates a pool of vulnerable individuals susceptible to criminal recruitment, further exacerbating the nation’s security issues.”At Premium Times, we firmly believe in the importance of high-quality journalism.
He also requested the Senate to urge Mr Tinubu to use his leadership and influence to persuade the federating units and all critical stakeholders in the constitutional alteration processes and administrative bottlenecks to embrace the vision of full local government autonomy. “Even councillors were awarding contracts. So the money was there and they were doing very, very well. Some local governments were very rich because they were having Internally Generated Revenue. Why did that happen?
“You must return local government elections to INEC. Or if you are not using INEC, create a body independent of the state governors. If you do not follow the chain of actions and you say you want to have autonomy even with this proposal we are having, we will not get it right.
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