The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) also raised the alarm that thirty-four out of the thirty-six state governors were guilty of diverting local government funds, leaving the government closest to the people with inadequate funds to develop the communities.
Out of the thirty-six states, NULGE said only Rivers and Jigawa were clean of the allegation, while the remaining state governors had refused to steer clear of local government council funds despite a directive by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit for them to desist from the act. The governors, the union alleged, had rather devised a means to manipulate the NFIU guidelines and continued to divert the funds.
The National President, NULGE, Ambali Olatunji, noted that it was a deliberate act by the state governors as they denied the grassroots of the effective leadership the masses desired, adding that the diversion of resources meant that development in the grassroots would continue to be undermined.
He stated that the governors’ refusal to conduct local government elections was also an attempt to deny the grassroots the right to have political and democratic leadership accountable to them.
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