LGs were better off under military –NULGE president
MAY 5, 2013
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National President of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Mr. Ibrahim Khaleel, has said local governments were better off under the military than under the current civilian regime.
Khaleel said governors should be blamed for underdevelopment in the country because of their unnecessary interferance in the administration of local governments.
The NULGE boss, who was one of the participants of Course 35, at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, said this in an interview with our correspondent in Ado Ekiti on Friday.
He said, “There is no state where the governor does not commit one form of illegality or another. The governors are the clog in the wheel of progress of this country. Most state governments conduct elections into the local government councils in their states at will.
“No reason is sufficient for any governor to deprive the people of democratically elected governments in councils. The governors don’t have the right to appoint caretaker committees to run local government affairs. They are doing that outside the constitution.
“Local government councils were better off under military administration than under these democratically elected governors. Some governors hijack what should be the internally generated revenue of the councils.”
Khaleel said while many governors did not judiciously use the allocation given to their states, they still deduct money from allocations of local governments.
The NULGE boss, who said local government autonomy would bring an end to the illegalities allegedly being perpetrated by the governors, also asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct elections into local governments.
He accused some state governors of deliberately creating confusion to prevent the conduct of elections into local governments.
“It is sad that the governors want to be in charge of local government areas in their states and even want to dictate to the Federal Government. It is sheer greed,” he added
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