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Ex-Reps Member Seeks Unified Tenure For LG Chairmen, Councilors

by Adebiyi Adedapo
3 years ago
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A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Chris Asoluka has said that strengthening the local government administration in the country could solve the problem of insecurity and unemployment.

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To this end, Asoluka called for a common tenure of 4 years period for the local government system in Nigeria, saying it was one surest way of making it viable and productive.

He made the appeal on the sidelines of his address to the members of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Course 44  led by Professor Sunday Ochoche at a study visit to GOTNI headquarters in Abuja over the weekend.

He urged the National Assembly to enact a legislation that will make it a possibility and also include the participation of civil society organizations in the local government system.

“I merely traced the history and to underscore that the current trend is what we call territorial approach to local development. That promotes local governance because it includes those local government councils, the CSOs and the Media. These people take responsibility towards solving problems in their localities and he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches.

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“You cannot define a problem more than someone from that area. And it is no longer an issue doing them a favour.

be ownership of the solution and when you have ownership of solution, you have responsibility, you have accountability and monitoring, then the quality of governance will improve. If governance and local governance are up to it, some of these problems could have been avoided because unemployment builds up from the local government, up to the state then to the federal.

 

 

 

“Security breaches very breach occurs in a local government, every Nigerian border is owned by a local government. So local governance would tend to make them own their area if there are problems they solve their problem.

 

 

 

“And like I qualified, local governance has to play a huge role as a catalyst; the CSOs have to play a role. And I can tell you given the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the emphasis in terms of support would be on this arrangement and no longer giving money upstairs and it wouldn’t trickle down to where the problem is.

 

 

 

“The national Assembly should have prioritized giving a unified tenure system for the Local Government administration in the ongoing Constitutional amendment. If it’s three years, three years, but I would have suggested four years, so that every elected person is four years. But with the current Constitution, under Section 7(4), 7(5), 7(6), the State House of Assembly makes laws for the Local Government,” he said.

 

 

 

Speaking on the constitutional lacuna on local government autonomy, Asoluka called for the amendment of  sections 7(1), and Section 7(4) of the Constitution to further strengthen the system.

 

 

 

“If there is a constitutional amendment, where local government councils are sufficiently empowered to make laws for their areas, but you see that state assemblies make laws that govern local governments.

 

 

 

“And most times they remove the chairmen, whereas the constitution should have been such that councils can vote or impeach their chairmen, and this tenure insecurity brings about some abuse.”


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