The Federal Government has set up a 10-member Inter-Ministerial Committee to ensure the enforcement of the Supreme Courts recent judgment granting financial autonomy to Local Government Councils in Nigeria.
Director, Information & Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), Segun Imohiosen, who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Abuja, said the SGF, Senator George Akume, who inaugurated the Inter-Ministerial Committee, would himself chair it.
Members of the committee are: the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy; Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Member; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning; Accountant-General of the Federation; Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN); Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance; Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, (RMFAC); Representative of State Governors; and, Representative of Local Government Counciks.
The committees primary goal is to ensure that local governments are granted full autonomy, allowing them to function effectively without interference from State governments.
This move is in line with President Bola Tinubu efforts to give appropriate implementation to the provisions of the Constitution, which recognises local governments as the third tier of government, the statement added.
