The Home of Representatives has urged the Income Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Fee (RMAFC) to withhold allocations from the Federation Account to native authorities areas being run with out elected officers however caretaker committees.
The decision adopted the adoption of a movement of Pressing Public Significance sponsored by Hon. Ademorin Kuye (APC, Lagos) and Jonathan Gaza Gbewfi (SDP, Nasarawa) at plenary on Tuesday.
Transferring the movement, Kuye expressed concern that the dissolution of democratically elected council officers instantly contravenes Part 7 of the Nigerian Structure, the Supreme Court docket pronouncement on such issues and a deliberate affront on democracy.
“Frightened is the rising variety of states appearing with impunity and constitutional disregard as about 21 states governors are at the moment working councils with caretaker committees
“Dismayed that this impunity and structure disregard is a deliberate effort to upstage democracy, shrink the event potential of native councils, enshrine lack of accountability and restrict transparency in native
governments and the state as an entire,” he added.
