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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Friday, July 23, 2004. Why FG must release Lagos LGs funds, by AD chieftain By Bolaji Adepegba Senior Correspondent, Lagos The National Vice Chairman (Southwest) of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Alhaji Olatunji Amzat, has said there is no fundamental reason why the Federal Government should not release the funds due the local governments in Lagos State, saying it is a part of a grand plan of witch-hunting. In an interview in Lagos, Amzat told Daily Independent: “Although we created 57 local governments, we have followed due process of law. Yet, we are not asking that money should be provided for the 57 local government councils. Money that was coming to the state for the local governments should be paid to the local governments concerned. What we now do with that money depends on the needs of the various local governments. The areas occupied by the 20 local governments have to be developed. The other states, which called their own development centres, will still disburse money to the so-called development centres. Even if it is from one local that you carved out more local governments, the area that you carved out will still need to be developed.” Amzat pointed out that the hiccup in the creation of the local government is a problem created by the Federal Government because the state had carried out its legitimate responsibility as far as local government creation was concerned. “The House of Assembly passed everything. The return, which was required by the Constitution to be made to the National Assembly, was made. I was a party to the submission. We went with fanfare to deliver it. If it is not listed yet in the constitution, it is not the fault of the state government; it is the fault of the Federal Government,” he said. He said that President Olusegun Obasanjo was acting in tandem with the trend in Black Africa where leaders do not suffer opposition.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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