In the last week, the Benue governor, Father Hyacinth Alia, approached the Benue House of Assembly with allegations of corruption against the 23 democratically-elected local government chairmen of the state seeking the House to investigate them and to advise him, and the House in turn set up a 3-man ad-hoc committee to do the investigation and revert to the House within 2 weeks. Not quite a few hours later the ad-hoc committee completed the entire investigation for all 23 local government areas covering up to 3 months and reported to the House!
Following this, the House recommended the suspension of the entire 23 local government councils ‘in order to pave way for proper investigations’, and the legislative councils, as well, for ‘connivance’ with the chairmen. They further asked the governor to appoint transition committees in their place.
Personally, I’m absolutely committed to the ideals of constitutional democracy, the rule of law , local government autonomy, decentralisation, devolution, the role and functions of institutions, and so forth. Anybody, therefore, standing for any of these is an ally, and has my full partnership and support irrespective of their motivation or their past. For the very first time, local government chairmen and leaders of legislative councils are standing up to the tyranny using the available tools.
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