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The House of Representatives has expressed its help for the authorized motion taken by the Federal Government in opposition to the 36 states of the federation to implement the autonomy of the native governments.
This was because the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees additionally, on Tuesday, declared its readiness to “aggressively mobilise our LG branches to troop out en mass to loudly support the Federal Government,” within the push for LG autonomy.
The Federal Government has approached the Supreme Court with a swimsuit looking for to compel governors of the 36 states of the federation to grant full autonomy to the native governments of their domains.
The swimsuit, marked SC/CV/343/2024, was filed by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), on behalf of the Federal Government.
The Federal Government is urging the apex court docket to challenge “an order prohibiting state governors from unilateral, arbitrary and unlawful dissolution of democratically elected local government leaders for local governments.”
Speaking with The PUNCH on the subject material, the deputy spokesman for the House of Representatives, Philip Agbese, stated the legislators had been in help of the Federal Government’s push for LG autonomy.
Agbese stated, “Yes; we are in total support of reforms that would uplift the well-being of our citizenry.”
According to a press release on Tuesday signed by Ambali Akeem, NULGE, at a gathering in Lagos on Tuesday, resolved to embark on a mega rally.
Akeem stated, “We are to design varied card posters and likewise use our massive banners that we already had. The route of the marketing campaign rally commences from native authorities secretariats, the key markets to paramount rulers or essential dignitaries.
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“The national secretariat will be sending our solidarity message for onward reproduction and delivery. Those that have local media houses should take the solidarity message to them in the local language. The national and state officers should join to offer leadership at their local. Those Houses of Assembly that pass autonomy bills should be visited. This solidarity message is non-political and we already discussed it with ALGON national leadership.”
But the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Emomotiti Gumor, on Tuesday, criticised the Federal Government’s resort to a lawsuit.
Gumor questioned why the Federal Government would go to court docket when the problem of LG autonomy was already being thought-about within the ongoing constitutional modification.
The Speaker, who spoke through the Delta Assembly’s first anniversary in Asaba, stated, “It is unconstitutional for the Federal authorities to deduct from the state what belongs to the native governments.
“Only 16 out of the 36 states supported the autonomy of the native authorities, which signifies that it falls wanting the expectations of what the structure says. So, it couldn’t stand the take a look at of time.
“They (Federal Government) wanted 24 states to help the autonomy however sadly, solely 16 voted for it whereas others voted in opposition to it.
“The Federal Government should have waited for the constitutional amendment, but it hurriedly approached the court, which to me is an aberration and unconstitutional.”
On Tuesday,