OSUN COUNCIL BOSS ADVOCATES LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY IN NIGERIA
The Executive Chairman of Atakumosa East Local Government, Hon. Femi Kujenbola has joined eminent Nigerians who are making case for the autonomy of Local Government administration in the country.
Hon. Kujenbola broke silence on Monday in Iperindo while exchanging views with the Executives of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Osun State Council, led by Comrade Wasiu Ajadosu who paid the Local Government a courtesy visit.
The council boss who lamented the meagre sum of monthly allowance from the Federation Account, stated that the scenario has put the local government administration in comatose, across all states in Nigeria.
According to him, “there should be autonomy for the local government administration in Nigeria. It is the conglomerate of local governments that make up the state. It is therefore the development of these local governments that will determine how the state is faring. If the local government is not developing, definitely the state cannot develop, so also the nation”.
Recounting the challenges of his counterparts across Nigeria, the council boss noted that many local government authorities could not deliver democracy dividends as expected despite great potentials in their different localities.
“We are currently at a level where the administration of local governments in Nigeria have collapsed. I look at some of my colleagues with pity. Their names can never be written in gold in their various local governments, especially when there is nothing to show for being in the office for three good years”, Hon. Kujembola explained.
He emphasized that the best way to salvage the people’s interest at the grassroot is to strengthen local government administration through its autonomy in no distant time.
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