Afrigather The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has described the Supreme Court docket’s judgment on native authorities autonomy as a distraction from the extra urgent points going through the nation.
In a video launched on Saturday, Makinde emphasised the necessity to tackle the underlying issues of productiveness, starvation, and anger in Nigeria.
He mentioned partly, “So the judgment of the Supreme Court docket, there may be native authorities autonomy, monetary autonomy, and all of that, and I’ll nonetheless say it, I feel it’s only a distraction. We should face the true points that we now have.
“The problem that we now have is that we’re not producing sufficient. We’re not productive.
PUNCH studies that in a landmark judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, a seven-member panel of the Supreme Court docket dominated that the 774 native authorities councils in Nigeria have the constitutional proper to handle their funds autonomously with out interference from state governments.
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