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Home |   About Us |   Contact Us |   Members |   Search |   Subscribe |   Disclaimer |   THE GUARDIAN CONSCIENCE, NURTURED BY TRUTH LAGOS, NIGERIA.     Friday, June 11 2004   news   editorial/opinion   politics & people   focus/record   business   sports   metro   capital market   weekend   golf weekly   Guardian Chat Click to join the chatroom 110604 today: Senate wants more councils to lose funds From Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Abuja I F the Federal Government aligns itself with a current position of the Senate, more local government areas may soon forfeit their allocations. The Senate wants councils without elected officials to join the category of those who will lose their allocations. This is coming on the heels of the stoppage of allocations to some councils on the grounds that they were created without constitutional approval. Senate President Adolphus Wabara disclosed yesterday that the legislature would "exert intense pressure on the Federal Government to withhold allocations to local council areas in the country where democratically elected council chairmen and councillors have not been allowed to assume office." In a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Mr. Henry Ugbolue, Wabara noted: "The trend whereby certain state governors with the Heads of Personnel Management (HPM) in the councils disburse local government funds or award contracts will no longer be tolerated, since the trend contravenes laid down financial regulations." According to Wabara, neither the state governors nor the HPMs of councils can truly be held accountable in the event of a probe of the disbursement of allocations in the local government councils. This, he said, was because "they were not empowered by the constitution to preside over the disbursement of the funds of these council." He said that in states where the governors refused to inaugurate democratically elected local government officials, "the proper thing would be for the Federal Government to withhold the allocations to such local council authorities pending the swearing-in of constitutionally elected leaders in that tier of government." He added that the salaries and allowances of council workers should be computed by the Houses of Assembly in such states and released accordingly.` � 2003 - 2004 @ Guardian Newspapers Limited (All Rights Reserved).  Powered by dnetsystems.net dnet�

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