A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party and an advocate for local government reforms, Chief Nnamdi Iheoma, says Nigerians can only benefit from the local government system if it is dramatically and holistically reformed to bring about an independent, functional and people-centre structure, where the citizens are free to choose LG leaders...
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party and an advocate for local government reforms, Chief Nnamdi Iheoma, says Nigerians can only benefit from the local government system if it is dramatically and holistically reformed to bring about an independent, functional and people-centre structure, where the citizens are free to choose LG leaders through credible elections.
We made to believe that with autonomy, we could throw ourselves into the system and bring our wide array of experience to help drive development at the grassroots for our people but the system is not yet free to enable credible people to bring in their experience, intellect, energy and capacity to transform the local government in Nigeria.
ow do they, do it? Now the worst is that there are beginning to bring our political and electoral process into this repute. What you get in most states is an extension of some administrators by the governors of the state. In some cases, they create a problem that they can’t even solve by disrespecting their own electoral and processes. Sand, these widespread breaches of electoral laws are not peculiar to one party.
It will be a welcomed development for the President. If they can achieve that, the President will have achieved something. Let me say something here. There is nobody in Nigeria that does not come from a local government irrespective of where he or she comes from. You are part of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria. If the local government system is made functional and robust and operates well it will serve us well.
So, my take will be to have a system where with the social media analysis, with the social media world now which is in place, we can name and shame those people who have stolen from our common purse. We need a system where people can corrupt leaders and tell them Oh, you are a thief, even though you are a governor for eight years. Let’s have a system where people can look at you in the face and say, while you were in government, you stole our money.
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