Some civil society organsiations (CSOs) have berated lawmakers in the state assemblies and federal legislature for their lack of commitment to passing the Local Government Autonomy bill in the ongoing constitution amendment process.
LEADERSHIP reports that five months after the National Assembly transmitted 44 bills of the constitution amendment exercise to the State House of Assemblies, the much talked-about local government autonomy is looking like it will not be realised.
And though 10 of the 36 states have passed the Local Government Autonomy bill, Lagos and Ekiti State Houses of Assembly have already rejected it.It is also unlikely that Rivers, Ondo, Imo, Ebonyi, Kwara, Plateau Kaduna, Kebbi, Zamfara, Taraba, Yobe, Gombe and Bauchi will pass the bill.The 10 states that have passed the local government autonomy bill are Delta, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Osun, Ogun, Anambra, Abia, Enugu, Kogi and Katsina.
Analysis of the voting pattern on LG autonomy by the State Houses of Assembly as of 21 August, 2022, obtained by LEADERSHIP indicated that passage of the bill is being awaited in Cross River, Bayelsa, Oyo, Niger, Nasarawa, Benue, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto, Adamawa and Borno states.
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