NULGE kicks, accuses nine governors of stealing LG funds through cronies
- NULGE has said that it would occupy the National Assembly over activities of some state governors
- The national president of NULGE, Hakeem Ambali, made this known on Friday, April 16
- Ambali also noted that the union shut down the 774 councils in the country if their demands were not met
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The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has raised the alarm that about nine governors were diverting local government funds in violation of the guideline issued by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) in May 2019, The Punch reports.
Legit.ng gathered that the union said the actions of the governors were depriving the people of the benefits that they should ordinarily have access to.
Source: UGC
The union also threatened to shut down the 774 councils in the country if their demands were not met within 30 days.
It called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign an executive order preventing any state that failed to conduct local government poll from accessing local government allocations.
In an exclusive interview with the newspaper, the national president of NULGE, Hakeem Ambali, said that members of the union would storm the National Assembly and the state assemblies to express their dissatisfaction with the way the governors were running the third tier of government.
Ambali asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sign an executive order preventing any state government that failed to conduct local government election from having access to local government allocations.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state on Monday, April 12, said his administration was planning to disengage some public servants in the state for fiscal reasons.
It was reported that this was contained in a statement issued by El-Rufai's spokesperson, Muyiwa Adekeye as he stated that the decision was painful but necessary to salvage the state’s finances.
He said a significant amount of the statutory federal allocations is being spent on the wages of public servants monthly.
Source: Legit.ng
