Following the Supreme Court judgement delivered in July, 2024 in favour of local Government Autonomy, the federal government has inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Committee to enforce the judgement granting financial autonomy to Local Governments in Nigeria. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, inaugurated the 10-man committee in Abuja yesterday.
Accordingly, the committee, which has the SGF as Chairman, consist of other members as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy; Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning; Accountant General of the Federation, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Permanent Secretary (Federal Ministry of Finance); Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission; representative of state governors; and representative of local governments.
The committee’s mandate is to ensure that local governments being the grassroots indigenous setting are fully back to life through granting its full autonomy, as well as allowing them to function effectively without interference from state governments as the third tier of government in the country.
In a statement signed by the Director of Information and public Relation, the SGF said, “This move is in line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu efforts to give appropriate implementation to the provisions of the Constitution, which recognizes local governments as the third tier of government,”
