Yakubu Busari
Plateau state civil society CSO’s calls for immediate consideration of the local government autonomy bill 2022 by the plateau state house of assembly
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 .
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 basis needs for healthy living, arrest unguided urban drift and increasing urban slums.
It guarantee 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 can not 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.
They must resist all the temptation to will the future of majority plateau rural populist to beg.
