Ilorin – Kwara State Chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), has thrown its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s quest to grant full autonomy to Local Government Councils in the country.
The NULGE State Secretary, Comrade Abayomi Afolabi made this known while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State.
Afolabi said that granting Local Government Area  autonomy would enable the councils to manage their resources more efficiently and pay staff and teachers salaries as at when due.
He said that granting local government full autonomy would accelerate staff career and grassroots development in the country.
The NULGE scribe said that federal allocations to the councils were based on data generated on the staff strength, infrastructure and classrooms needs of Primary and Junior Secondary Schools in each local government.
Afolabi said that the local governments’ employees in Kwara were being owed about three months’ salaries “because it is the State organs that determine the manner of disbursement of federal allocations to the councils.’’
The NULGE secretary also condemned state governments’ takeover of power from the local government councils to manage internally generated revenue in their respective areas.
He appealed to the national and state House of Assemblies to revisit the 2014 Delegate Conference and pass the autonomy of local government’s clause into law.