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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 14, 2004           Don urges FG to include LGs in FAAC The federal government has been called upon to include local governments in the federation accounts committee (FAAC) as a way of evolving their autonomy. The call was made by Mr Asuquo Mboho of the University of Uyo, in a lecture delivered at a three- day seminar on �Effective Security Documentation Reporting and Conflict Resolution in Local Government Councils��,organised for heads of councils in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Friday. Mboho maintained that the non representation of the local government areas in FAAC had exposed their finances to �unnecessary interference� by the states.�� He noted that the submission of council budget to state Houses of Assembly for approval and the imposition of spending limits on the chairmen of councils constituted a stumbling block to the realisation of the autonomy of the councils. �In fact our fiscal reforms for the 21st century should promote autonomy through decentralisation of government activities, he argued. �It should also promote the decentralisation of programme by allowing local government councils to raise significant revenue and spend it for local people who are in dire need of development, he emphasised. �For autonomy to become a reality, there is absolute need for the return of prisons, fire service, customary courts and local police back to the local government councils,�� Mboho said. He wondered why local government accounts should be submitted to state auditors-general for vetting, when the governors challenged the submission of their monthly accounts to the federal accountant general as ordered by President Obasanjo. He called on federal and state governments to minimise �unnecessary interference in the day-to- day activities of councils, if the philosophy of establishing local governments must be achieved.   SITE TOOLS Print This Page   EMAIL THIS PAGE Friend's Name: Friend's  Email: Your Name: Your Email:           � Triumph Publishing Company Limited 2004

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