“Posterity will not judge us right if we fail to perform our oversight duty of serving as watchdogs and monitoring of the activities of the local councils and LCDAs.” OyoState Nigeria Corruption
in the activities of local councils and Local Council Development Areas in Oyo State between May 2018 and June 2019.
According to the report, the committee discovered that some programmes and projects worth millions of naira executed by the 33 local councils and 35 LCDAs in the state had the same titles with the same amount and were repeatedly captured in the expenditure. The Speaker, Adebo Ogundoyin, in his comment at the plenary, said it was unfortunate that the chairmen abused their offices by inflating project expenses, duplicating them as well as embarking on projects that did not have a direct impact on the populace.
“We are poised to put in place an efficient and effective local council system that will not only improve the system but also engender robust and impactful development at the local and community levels.However, in a swift reaction, the embattled Association of Local Governments of Nigeria , Oyo State Branch described as laughable and a parliamentarian comedy of error the recent allegations against its members by the Oyo State House of Assembly.
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