'All over the world, county or municipal governments, called Local Government Areas in Nigeria...'
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According to Nwoye, the state assembly has passed the administration of LGA Bill 2024, which requires the councils to remit an amount so decided by the state, from their federal monthly allocations into a dedicated account, within two days of the receipt of the funds. Media reports allege that many elected chairpersons and councillors took oaths of secrecy and allegiance to governors, to maintain the old order of the total hand over of council treasuries to them. This appears as the condition precedent to their being allowed to contest to head the council in the first place. It may well be that the governors purchased their expression of interest forms, which cost as much as N10 million each in some states.
Even if the mutation in their operations serve no more than an experiment in local government administration in the country, so be it. They have statutory responsibilities under the Constitution for which funds are allocated to them. The administration of primary schools, waste disposal, primary healthcare delivery, transportation, rural roads maintenance, provision of signage, cemeteries and abattoirs, markets and motor parks are under their schedule of duty.
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