Minority leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has called for caution with the local government autonomy recently approved by the lawmakers.
Speaking on Channels TV Sunrise Daily, the lawmaker decried the inclusion of local governments as purview of federal government, saying that they should be the responsibility of state government.
According to him, local governments are not meant to be in the constitution. “We have agreed on the autonomy of local government but we are yet to vote on what defines the autonomy and those are clauses that we have vote on soon.”
He affirmed his support for the local government autonomy in terms of elections into the councils but utterly disagreed with “the ridiculous things….and clauses that have been put into the law that basically allows the federal government to run local government.”
“That is running from one problem to creating another problem”, he added.
