BREAKING: Nigerian States’ Legislature, Judiciary now independent as Buhari signs Financial Autonomy Order
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed into law Executive Order No. 10 of 2020 for the implementation of Financial Autonomy of State Legislature and State Judiciary Order, 2020.
Gwandu recalled that a Presidential Implementation Committee was constituted to fashion out strategies and modalities for the implementation of financial autonomy for the State Legislature and State Judiciary in compliance with section 121 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 ; taking into considerations all other applicable laws, instruments, conventions and regulations, which provides for financial autonomy at the state tier of government.
The statement added that President Buhari signed the Executive Order number 10 into law based on the power vested in him as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under Section 5 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 , which extends to the execution and maintenance of the Constitution, laws made by the National Assembly of the 1999 Constitution, which guarantee financial autonomy of the State Legislature and State Judiciary.
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