The National Assembly on Tuesday granted financial and administrative autonomy to all the local governments across Nigeria.
This was done when the lawmakers voted on 68 Constitution Amendment bills at their plenary. The voting was done electronically.
Both chambers of the National Assembly during voting on the Constitution Amendment voted in favour of Local Government administrative autonomy as a tier of government and guarantee their democratic existence and tenure.
In the House of Representatives, the bill to create a special account through which funds for local governments will be paid directly from the Federation Account had 257 ‘YES’ votes while nine persons voted ‘NO.’
For the local government autonomy, 258 members of the House of representatives voted ‘YES’ while 15 voted ‘NO’.
In the Senate Chamber, Local government financial autonomy had 92 ‘YES’ votes and two ‘NO’ votes.
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Also in the Senate Chamber, local government autonomy, had 258 ‘YES’ votes and 15 ‘NO’ votes.
Local government administrative autonomy had 88 ‘YES’ votes, four ‘NO’ votes.
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One thing I am sure of this our great country is if there is no coup the politicians will one day make Nigeria great where masses will be proud of their leaders.The other day Mr President signed electoral bill, today financial autonomy was granted to Local government,we are actually moving forward,God bless Nigeria
This is a welcome development however once the election into Local Government is to be suprintend by Governor the authonomy will still be a mirage .I would suggest that INEC should be made to contest the election.With this different parties would be in charge of Local Government Administration and this will lead to healthy rivalry.Note that any election conducted by Governors is mere selection and a reward to their cronies who can not challenge their execesses .
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