Yakubu Busari
The Coordinator of Plateau state civil society CSO’s, Comrade Steve Aluko Daniel has calls for immediate consideration of the local government autonomy bill 2022 by the plateau state house of assembly
Steve Aluko Daniel stated this in a press statement made available to our correspondent in Jos .
According to him ,this call for the speedy passage is made against the past progressive rich history of past plateau state house Assembly from the first to the eight assembly that have not only promptly consider same but ensure it passage against all odds by some not to well-meaning anti-democratic forces either as individuals or groups with ulterior motive.
He stated that this law when passed it strengthen good governance at the local government level, promote accountability, transparency and open governance.
It will also give majority of our rural populist a fair sense of ownership and responsibility.
It will promote healthy competitive development among the 774LGAs in Nigeria. and provide for basic needs for healthy living, arrest unguided urban drift and increasing urban slums.
It guarantees veritable platforms for security of life and property of all including top politicians and civil servants that will eventually retire to a local government after their services to the nation etc.
Given all these advantages this call made under a renewed vigour of a collective aspirations to give better live to the third tiers of governance. These sanctity is in the collective resolved of the presidency, the national assembly, the erudite judgment of the supreme court, the plateau state of assembly from the first to eighth and people of plateau state have always at different times think and acted plateau given our peculiarities and challenges of under development votes for local government autonomy therefore the ninth cannot afford the luxury of wasting this rear opportunity make or mere history to write their names in gold by protecting the sanctity of their mandate
He pointed out that they must resist all the temptation to will the future of majority plateau rural populist to be at the mercy of few selfish and self centred individual or groups that have feed fat on plunderers act of unaccountable local government system in plateau and Nigeria.
Alukodaniel disclosed that the Local government autonomy will definitely open a new phase in building it capacity and competence to act positive as the best way to develop in this country is through a bottom-top approach to governance. Any other way will be counterproductive. If we all want prosperous Nigeria, we need local intent and content like.
“We must have decentralization and devolution of power like in Morocco. Morocco is succeeding because it has a proper bottom-top approach to governance. Anybody, group, party and candidates that is opposed to Local Government autonomy should be seen as anti-people and enemies of the state that must perish with such ideas and dispositions.
