{"id":175379,"date":"2022-04-11T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=175379"},"modified":"2022-04-11T06:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:08:18","slug":"fayemi-govs-should-determine-how-local-councils-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/11\/fayemi-govs-should-determine-how-local-councils-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Fayemi: Govs should determine how local councils run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kayode Fayemi, Governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors&#8217; Forum has stated that\u00a0there is no part of the constitution that says the local governments are the third tier of the federal system of government that the country operates.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fayemi,\u00a0the current federal structure only recognises the federal and state governments.<\/p>\n<p>He also denied that governors frustrate the local governments by spending their statutory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/03\/state-police-nigerians-want-governors-to-be-chief-security-officers-makinde\/\">allocations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the state government, headed by a governor, should be at liberty to determine how local councils in the state are operated.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated by the governor on Sunday during <em>Channels Television<\/em>\u2019s Sunday Politics in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why state governments and governors are stifling the local governments, Fayemi said, \u201cI am a student of Political Science, so allow me to always return to the basic principles. Today in Nigeria, the local government is not a tier of government; it is an administrative vehicle for delivering on what the citizens within those jurisdictions would like to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederalism is a two-tier system: you have the Federal Government and you have the state government. The state government should be at liberty, in my view, to determine the number of administrative units they want to have within their geographic space in order to know how effective they would be. You have some states where what is most effective is the town\u2019s union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIf you go to the south-eastern part of this country, people discover that towns\u2019 unions are much more accountable. People will not steal money belonging to a town\u2019s union because the penalties are severe if it happens. But they don\u2019t have a problem stealing money that comes from an unknown government known as federal, state or local government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if the government of Anambra State, for example, feels that it wants to have 200 autonomous community governments, because that is what would be more accountable to them, then so be it. That is what this principle should be about. However, this notion of force-feeding the local government\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he was sure that federalism is two-tier according to the Constitution, Fayemi insisted, \u201cThat is what is represented in the Constitution. Local governments actually make their resources via the states. It is in our Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When reminded that local government had always been known as the third tier of government, the governor stated, \u201cYou can check this out, whether what I am telling you is correct or not. In the current Constitution amendment process going on, one of the clauses that the National Assembly has just passed, that they want to go into the Constitution, is the recognition of the local government as a third tier of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fayemi added, \u201cIf it is the existing provision, there would be no need for that amendment to be put forward by the National Assembly. But it has been put forward now and it will go through the process in the 36 state (Houses of) Assemblies, we would see whether it passes that test of constitutional scrutiny or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know of any governor \u2013 and I stand to be corrected; I am the Chairman of the Governors\u2019 Forum; I talk to my colleagues and I look at the books \u2013 I am not aware of any governor that dips his hands into local governments\u2019 treasury and takes their money. 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