The governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has announced the creation of 31 new Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, by his administration.
Mr. Aregbesola stated this Tuesday in a state‎ broadcast to the people of the state. He said additional 31 Local Council development Areas, 3 area councils and two administrative offices were created.
The governor said his administration would make ‎judicious use of its revenues in a way that increasing the number of councils will least constitute any financial burden.
Mr. Aregbesola also announced the dissolution of the management committees of the existing 30 Local Councils and Area Office, their executive secretaries, deputy executive secretaries, members, special advisers and other functionaries.
The government had sent a request for additional local councils to the state House of Assembly, which later passed the bill.
Speaking on why the state was creating more councils at a time of financial challenges, Mr. Aregbesola said his administration had given the decision sufficient consideration, and had put in place measures to cut cost.
He added that the responsibilities of the new councils include bringing development to the people, managing the markets, generating more revenue, amongst others.


The governor said the state would be saving huge cost with the new councils. He said no new appointment would be made as the same number of staff will still run all the councils.
‎He said the entire local government system would be managed by Council Managers for three months. The managers are to be appointed and deployed by Local Government Service Commission from among the substantive grade level 14 officers in the local governments.
‎”Many would be wondering and asking: why create more councils at this special time of financial challenges? We have also given sufficient consideration to this. With this new parliamentary system, it will cost less to run the new councils and save a lot of money for the government than in the past. 
“The primary responsibilities of our new local government system are sanitation, market management and revenue mobilisation and generation. This is consistent with local government administration worldwide.
“The beauty of this new system is its parliamentary nature, which requires the chairman and the vice chairman to be elected by the councillors from among their own ranks, thereby saving cost,” the governor said.




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Great. More money down the drain of salaries and allowances

this is fantastic &a very good development for the people of osun in which I believe is long overdue, despite what they are experiencing this hard time but my believe is they will soon get over it,bringing government close to the people of grassroots brings development&accelerated change to rural areas. good luck to the people of osun,other cheated States should emulate this &at the end of the day it's will soon be pass to law by the national assembly,enough of the cheating going on right now on allocation shearing formula.

Wonders shall never end, when he ought to apply to the senate for reductions in the local govts in his state. If aregbesola thinks this will be another money spinning avenue, its a bad game plan this time.

In fact aregbesola should be treated like a criminal. He should be flogged in public

Who will fund those councils?

Gud dvlpmt...backoff haters

Misplaced priority from aregbese, he is yet to pay the local government on ground their salaries and here he is creating some more lga...SMH

Is it creation of more LCDA that will do the work and magic .
Aregbee....!

Will it solve the problem of his inability to pay salary

This one dosent know anything. In this crucial bad economy, he is thinking of making local councils in the underdeveloped state. A mind of an illiterate

Awon omoluabi! Osun Adara o

MOney must come anyway

Him go fit pay salaries

My Oh my!!!

Very Senseless man.

The state house of assembly must not pass that stupid bill.

The LGs would need funds to be operational, effective and efficient. Any plan on generating more revenue within the State without running to Aso rock needlessly for bailout?

That man no well.

Workers salaries before any other things Mr. Governor

I think this guy has gone bananas






ThefakeStan

It is not about service delivery but creating offices for his loyalists. How much is Osun state internally generating as revenue that it wants to expand the cost of governance? The state is battling with workers salaries, he still want to expand the workforce not minding he is now saying there won't be any recruitment!

Personally, l am convinced that this is wrong way to empower the people, The state is agrarian, what has he done to empower his people on modern techniques in Agriculture?

Without jumping to unnecessary and invalid conclusions.. Someone with elaborate knowledge of this, should explain to me with all relevant examples the logic behind this act of Aregbe.

How's he going to pay them when he hasn't paid the one on ground ?



This mam is a brain dead fool not fit enough to lead a bathroom

Aregbesola is already playing to the gallery. He wasted so much resources during the genesis of his government and now that all gates are closed, he is looking for ways to amazed more fund. I'm from osun and I know the struggle that characterized the the daily activities there. This is another way to enslave the masses and as such the implementation should be rejected. That man has killed osun with his draconian government.

The man is so confused

Aregbe, Please establish local industry or Farm settlements that will be productive not cost financing.

Please let look inward for employment and investment. Please let stop giving out money to nonprofit organization.

fistonati:
Wonders shall never end, when he ought to apply to the senate for reductions in the local govts in his state. If aregbesola thinks this will be another money spinning avenue, its a bad game plan this time.

In fact aregbesola should be treated like a criminal. He should be flogged in public

. On the contrary reduction of LGA reduces your income since fgn give LGAs money directly from top, the move is good if they will follow what he said in the broadcast, no new staff, no bogus election,

Ok

Aregbe wants to drain Osun dry.. always scheming plans that will get him more money..


he's governor, he's commissioner, he's chairman, he's councillor..


you sha will leave the post one day..

carry on

Buh wait, ows this man planning on paying them?.

This aregbe guy needs psychiatric evaluation, a governor that can't pay workers salary yet thinks creating more LGs is the way to go?
Not minding the rubbish he stated up there, there's no way this will not additional financial burden on the state, what's the merit or advantage of creating more LGs now?
He also said the LGs will be running parliamentary system of govt, is osun state now a separate nation on its own that it can decide what system of govt to run despite the constitution saying otherwise?
Are there no provisions in the constitution on how chairmen of local governments should emerge?
This guy doesn't cease to amaze me