LG autonomy: Supreme Court’s judgment means no FAAC allocations to CTC chairmen in Rivers, Abia, others – Ozekhome

LG autonomy: Supreme Court’s judgment means no FAAC allocations to CTC chairmen in Rivers, Abia, others – Ozekhome

Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has said
Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment on Local Government Council Autonomy means
that the Federation Account Allocation Committee will not release funds to
Rivers, Abia, Anambra, Katsina, Zamfara, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers and other states
with Caretaker Committee LGA chairmen will be withheld.

 

Ozekhome disclosed this on Friday in an interview with
Channels Television.

 

“The judgement of the government is clear. If you want to
receive funds from the federation account, then conduct an election. If what
you have in place is a caretaker committee as local government chairman, be
sure that it will not have money from the federation account. If you want money
from the federation account, such councils must be democratically elected,” he
stated.

 

This comes following the recent Supreme Court verdict
endorsing full local government autonomy and ordering that funds from the
Federation Account should be paid directly to LG accounts.

 

The country’s highest court, with Thursday’s verdict,
stopped governors from receiving and tampering with local government
allocations.

 

Also, the Supreme Court barred governors from henceforth
dissolving democratically elected officials for local governments and that
doing so would amount to a breach of the 1999 Constitution.

 

DAILY POST reports that over 18 states in Nigeria currently
have CTCs including Rivers, Benue, Anambra, Imo, Kwara, Abia, Enugu, Plateau,
Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Sokoto, Yobe, Ondo, Osun, Akwa-Ibom and Cross River.

Source: LG autonomy: Supreme Court’s judgment means no FAAC allocations to CTC chairmen in Rivers, Abia, others – Ozekhome

 - NigerianEye

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