Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano state has made the commitment to ensure that all the local government areas. LGAs are granted full autonomy. There are 44 LGAs in the state.
The governor made the affirmation , on Thursday, while presiding over the state executive Council Meeting, SEC, in Kano, the state capital after the Council approve a bill seeking full autonomy for the LGAs was approved by members.
The bill has now been sent to the State House of Assembly for deliberations, according to information gathered by the magazine.
According to Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, the governor’s spokesman, Governor Abba believes that granting full autonomy to LGAs will allow them carry out their project, it will also promote accountability, good governance and fast grassroots development, adding that the state government want a situation where LGA will have both administrative and financial independence. .
The development comes more than a year after the Supreme Court gave a landmark judgment granting financial autonomy to the 774 LGAs in the country.
According to the nation’s apex court, in the judgment it delivered in July 2024, the Joint Account between State Government and LGAs was abolished paving the way for council administration to receive their allocation directly from the federation Account.
But more than a year after the judgment, the federal government has yet to fully implement the it, a situation analyst blame on the lack of political will to carry out the Supreme Court order.
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