Muhammad Mahmud-Aliyu, on Thursday said granting autonomy to local government councils will facilitate socio-economic development at the grassroots.
Mr Mahmud-Aliyu, who is also the current ALGON Chairman in Kaduna State, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at Maigana, headquarters of Soba Local Government.He said: “The move by the Federal Government to ensure the autonomy of Local Government Councils in Nigeria is a welcome development.
He, however, said it “is not” a new thing in Kaduna State, because, local government councils have been enjoying such autonomy from Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i. “Here I mean changes in the area of projects execution at the grassroots levels. Taking myself as an example, I have awarded different contracts worth over N1 billion and I paid over 80 per cent in most of the contracts,” he said.
Mr Mahmud-Aliyu assured that the projects were being executed in all the 23 local government areas of the state depending on the grant received and the size of the workforce of each council. “This will reduce the scourge of poverty amongst the rural dwellers apart from keeping people especially the youths busy and more productive,” he said.
He said others are payment of pension of retired workers and deduction of one per cent of the total grant to take care of training and retraining of staff among others.
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