Local Government Councils in Benue, Taraba, and Nasarawa states are still operating Joint Accounts in spite of the financial autonomy granted
A survey conducted by News Agency of Nigeria in these states revealed that the local governments still draw their funds from their respective states’ joint accounts.
He said the meetings were solely for the purpose of transferring funds to individual council accounts. ”It is individual councils that are paying salaries but what they are doing is that they will do joint account meeting, then transfer all the money from the joint account to local government accounts.
“You know the local government councils in the state are still being run by caretaker committees; so everyone is afraid to demand compliance with the directives to stop joint allocation in the state,” the official who pleaded anonymity, said. He recalled how dividends of democracy had impacted positively on the local people until the review of the local government autonomy act that destabilised the efficient governance mechanism at the grass roots level.
He said that unlike in the past, local governments in the state could now executive projects that had bearing on the lives of their people provided they had the funds. Mr Adeyemi said that the partial financial autonomy granted the councils sometime by the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit had not been working due to the refusal of states to comply.
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