Abia State House of Assembly has denied legislating on any bill to tamper with Local Government Area (LGA) funds.
He challenged the Abia state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Union, NLC, to provide evidence of a bill in which they alleged that the state government plans to seize 90% of the local council allocations.
Interacting with newsmen in Umuahia, after a meeting with, the Speaker of the Assembly Hon. Emmanuel Emeruwa, said although the constitution empowers the House to legislate on local government affairs, there is no such bill under consideration by the state Assembly.
He said; “I challenge the NLC to produce evidence of what they wrote because you cannot say what you don’t know. There is nothing like that before of me, there is nothing like that. And, if we are making any new law regarding local governments, it is our legitimate right and mandate because the constitution gives the House of Assembly the right to oversight the Local Government.”
Recall that NLC had alleged that the state government is planning to seize 90% of the local government allocations, leaving the councils with 10%.
On the forthcoming Abia LG Polls, he disclosed that they came to show solidarity to the Governor for his good programmes and policies in the state, commend and support him for the November 2nd council poll.
“We came to pay courtesy to the Governor and show solidarity of all policies and programmes that he is unleashing. We say unequivocally that we are in support of his efforts. You can see the House is almost complete both the opposition and members of the Labour Party to give him that support. We don’t have a divided House.
“We gave him support in the oncoming local government elections because, without a good local administration, we will not be complete. The House of Assembly is in solidarity with him and in support that this local government election be done so that the grassroots will benefit in whatever we are doing.”
He urged the electorates to come out en mass on Saturday, November 2nd, and vote for leaders of their choice, irrespective of political parties.
“We will not cage people to vote for one party. They should vote their conscience”.
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