The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Kwara State has asked Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and members of the state House of Assembly to speed up the process required for total autonomy of the local government system in the state.
It said the local government as a constitutionally recognized third tier of government should be independent in administrative and financing.
The state President of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees , Comrade Oyinlade Seun Adeleye, who stated this in Ilorin on Wednesday urged Governor AbdulRazaq to break his seeming silence on the vexed issue of local government autonomy.
Adeleye, who described local government autonomy as the catalyst to security of lives and property and development at the grass roots, maintained that the third tier of government cannot be an appendage of the state government.
The state President also warned members of the state House of Assembly opposing the autonomy of the local government, saying that members of the union would mobilize against them in the forthcoming general elections.
On the timing of the agitation for local government autonomy, Royal Times reports that the state President said the union deliberately chose the electioneering period to secure the commitment of candidates of political parties to the independence of the third tier of government.
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