OpEd: Grouse Against Joint Project Development Agency Proposed By Governor Inuwa Yahaya By I. Y Melah | Sahara Reporters We are aware that billions of naira are in our various local government accounts, the local governments do not need any... READ MORE:
The local government system was created in order to be a vehicle through which people at the grassroots will feel the impact of government. In other words, it was primarily to bring government closer to the people. But for a very long time, this purpose has not been realised due to the fact that most state governors, if not all, are feeding fat on local government administrations.
In their usual unpatriotic posture, the Governor's Forum instituted an action against NFIU at the Federal High Court to protect their selfish interest, not the interest of the governed. The governor sent an Executive Bill to the Gombe State House of Assembly for the creation of an agency to be known as Joint Project Development Agency.I call on all well-meaning members of the society to reject this bill in its entirety. I have identified the following as factors to be considered in rejecting this bill.
Again, closely related to the above, the project is supposed to be the collective arrangement of all the local governments but it appears to be a state government affair wherein the state governor decides everything like an autocratic village king who answers to no one. The next point is an issue that directly affects the people of Gombe South. The issue of composition of the governing council.
As a matter of fact, we have never had anybody assigned any of the above portfolios from the South except for the few times we have had one or two persons as Commissioner for Works and Local Government and these two cases were made so insignificant that we barely remember them.
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