MUCH ADO ABOUT EXECUTIVE ORDER 10
Governors should do what is right by granting the legislature and judiciary financial autonomy guaranteed by law
In a country where the rule of law is supreme, there would have been no need for any executive order to compel governors to comply with a constitution they all swore to uphold. But the houses of assembly in many of the states are mere rubber stamp legislature whose members cannot hold the governors to account. It is the same with the judiciary in these states where Chief judges often have to go begging for funds from the governors to run an independent arm.
But there are also contending issues. The provision which empowers the Accountant General of the Federation to “authorise the deduction from source in the course of Federation Accounts Allocation from the money allocated to any State of the Federation that fails to release allocation meant for the State Legislature and State Judiciary in line with the financial autonomy guaranteed by Section 121 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 ” is contentious.
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