{"id":3257,"date":"2024-11-25T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2024-11-25T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T10:51:16","slug":"lg-chairmen-more-corrupt-than-governors-ngige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/11\/25\/lg-chairmen-more-corrupt-than-governors-ngige\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Chairmen More Corrupt Than Governors \u2013 Ngige"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Governor of Anambra State and former\u00a0Labour and Employment Minister,\u00a0 Chris Ngige, said the Supreme Court made an error in its judgment on financial autonomy for local governments.<\/h2>\n

Ngige accused local council chairmen of being too corrupt than governors. He stated that most council chairmen crave to acquire choice estates in Abuja, Lagos and other Western nations.<\/p>\n

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The Labour and Employment Minister under former President\u00a0 Muhammadu Buhari argued that the Supreme Court judgment was in neglect of Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ngige stated this at the weekend in Enugu on the topic \u2018Local Government Administration and Primary Healthcare\u2019, during the 29th annual general meeting (AGM) and scientific conference of the Association of Urological Surgeons, Nigeria (NAUS).<\/p>\n

He noted that more than \u201c15,000 primary healthcare centres were built across the country as constituency projects\u201d<\/em>, stressing the need for the State Economic Planning Boards to ensure that the abandoned healthcare centres were revamped as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

He noted that the \u201clocal government system remained pivotal to the basic healthcare system, which former Minister of Health, Prof. Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, transformed into primary healthcare system\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Senator Ngige further explained council chairmen\u2019s desire for luxury affects building public health centres and schools in their areas and owing teachers several months of salary arrears and allowances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same Supreme Court, in 2006, made a pronouncement in which it warned the Federal Government against dictating to the states how to spend local government funds accruable to them.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe previous Supreme Court ruling when Justice Mohammed Uwais was the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) was pronounced in a case filed by three state governments \u2013 Lagos, Abia, and Delta \u2013 through their attorneys general, challenging then President Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s Local Government Account Monitoring Committee Act 2005,<\/em>\u201d the Nation quoted him.<\/p>\n

He emphasized the need to implement statutory first-line deductions for the payment of salaries and wages of council workers, pensions and gratuities, traditional rulers\u2019 entitlements and customary courts\u2019 allowances before paying federal allocation directly to local government chairmen.<\/p>\n

He added that the local government system would start working when governors obeyed the law, and the Houses of Assembly became aware of their responsibilities, including calling erring governors to order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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