seunfly:


Governors will simply appoint chairmen that will sign tbe cheque and clear it for him. Local government needs to be fully autonomous from stated governors thesame way president does not have power over state government governors.

seunfly:
FG needs to reduce the power of governors on appointment and sacking of LG chairman otherwise this gain will soon be eroded.

Westsida:



Okay, so what happened? Hope the property is still safe? Hope you didn’t send them any money?

pawesome:
This is the sweetest thing ever...


But very soon, governors will hijack it as they will want their right wing man to be LG chairman and that's all

pawesome:
This is the sweetest thing ever...


But very soon, governors will hijack it as they will want their right wing man to be LG chairman and that's all

seunfly:


Governors will simply appoint chairmen that will sign tbe cheque and clear it for him. Local government needs to be fully autonomous from stated governors thesame way president does not have power over state government governors.

Flyingngel:
seunfly post:


FG needs to reduce the power of governors on appointment and sacking of LG chairman otherwise this gain will soon be eroded.



I agree with you but i think federal government shld sent a bill to the National Assembly to amend the constitution such that INEC will have sole responsibility of conducting Local government elections and also their tenure shld be 4 years like others.

Flyingngel:
seunfly post:


FG needs to reduce the power of governors on appointment and sacking of LG chairman otherwise this gain will soon be eroded.



I agree with you but i think federal government shld sent a bill to the National Assembly to amend the constitution such that INEC will have sole responsibility of conducting Local government elections and also their tenure shld be 4 years like others.

OGHENAOGIE:
that's is the real deal...once lga chairmen and councilors can be elected like governors and have their powers too...we are good to go... more so state assemblies ought not to do the jobs of what councilors should do at lga as legislators...besides I learnt the governor's are challenging this in court so let's see how it goes

seanfer:


Do you know that in 1998 Inec conducted the LGA election? OBJ/PDP led federal government changed the law and transferred the conduct of the election to the state just because they want to win the general election in 2003.... I am sure many people against this financial autonomy for LGAs don't know that PDP turned LGA to their cash crow....

seunfly:


Governors will simply appoint chairmen that will sign tbe cheque and clear it for him. Local government needs to be fully autonomous from stated governors thesame way president does not have power over state government governors.

abeggnow:
you cant apoint a local government chirman because the the local government is a different arm of government

Flyingngel:
Sconty09 post:


Why I will support any efforts to reduce corruption in our nation, be it in the state level or federal level. But, my concern is that we wither down the true federalism we craved for real developments. All democratic nations in the world devolved power to their states to create local authorities as they deem fit based on growing population and other demographics. It ensures bottom-up approach of governance that enables access to their governments and developments to majority of their led. However, because we never nurture true federalism or democratic norms in Nigeria and we pretend to practiced democracy. Different laws for different parts of the country. In addition, the Northerners are smart thinkers they strengthened local governments system instead of state governments for strategic reasons.

1. To keep hold of the country from fragmented and they are never going to adopt any good approach to allow each region develop on its own.
2. They make more revenue from the national treasury through local government than the south.
3. The powerful the states (especially the south) with capability to create more local govts, the more closer to true federalism and more closer to resource control agitations.
4. The only way the South can peacefully separates is when they become stronger economically by entrenching true federalism where state controls the local governments.(I know there are risks of powerful governors but can be tamed by independent state legislatures and civil organisations).

We don't need to invent new ideas for governance and developments, and the Northerners don't want changes in our laws as it currently favoured them. They earned more than the South laying the eggs, they control the nation by their overestimated population while they want to keep the resources in their region to themselves and feast on the South. Our problem is not giving the local government autonomy as the governors can always find alternative route to that local government treasury, so we are not solving any problem. Give each state the powers to create and manage local government affairs for even development and allow true federalism, you will see the North burns because they depend on the money coming to the centre from South. Otherwise, the current situation will continue and the south suffers setbacks waiting for the North to get it right.






Your statement is good but you knw how '' fantastically corrupt'' our politicians are interms of independent state legislature and civil organization.
In a nutshell independent state legislature will be a bit difficult to achieve in Nigeria.
My former governor once said that '' who money cannot buy more money can buy''.

Ask yourself, Do you want freedom from uncontrollable and far away Northern led government OR a government close to you and led by your people that you can reign in with massive protest or through elections. The closer your government or representatives the better for you.

seunfly:


What are they doing now, have ever heard caretaker committee b4? That is another maening of chairma appointment.