National president of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, (NULGE) Akeem Ambali, has charged the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to focus more on addressing the basic problems of the Country if the government is seriously committed to fixing Nigeria.
Comrade Ambali, who advised at the state delegate conference of the Kaduna State chapter of NULGE, attributed the numerous problems facing the country toa lack of viable and functional local governments, which has left a majority of the citizens in rural areas neglected and marginalized.
He insisted that local government is the medium through which rural communities and grassroots access dividends of democracy and good living conditions, adding that genuine effort to fix Nigeria, should start by fixing the local government areas, through financial autonomy and freehand to make them functional and result-oriented.
Comrade Ambali commended members of NULGE, in Kaduna State, for their maturity, and peaceful conduct of the delegate conference which led to the return of their former executives for the second term, unopposed and urged the new executives to justify the trust and confidence reposed in them by living up to expectations.
In a message, the governor of Kaduna State Uba Sani, through his senior special adviser on labour matters, Comrade, Adamu Ismaila, gave assurance that local governments and their workers are on the priority list of his administration, stressing that appropriate steps would be taken to address the problems of Local governments in the state.
In his acceptance speech, the State President of the Union, Comrade Rayanu Isyaku Turunku described his election and that of other members of the State Council unopposed as unprecedented, and demonstration of a vote of confidence, assuring that they would not disappoint.
