Four hundred and seventy nine local government councils in 22 states may face cash crunch as the Supreme Court ruled that councils run by caretakers will not draw funds from the Federation Account.
The Supreme Court also directed that payments of council allocations should no longer be made to the State/Local Government Joint Account. As reaffirmed by their Lordships, the practice of enthroning caretakers to man the councils is against the provisions of Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution, which guarantees a democratically council.
This has been generating some intra-parties’ disputes, as some local governments have shown discontent with some state governors, who have been accused of suffocating them by releasing a minute of their funds to them. With the funds under the governors, some have accused the state executive officers of plundering the local councils, appointing their stooges as caretaker chairmen for local governments.The states include Abia, 17; Akwa Ibom, 31; Anambra, 21; Bauchi, 23; Benue, 23; Beyelsa, eight; Cross-River, 18; Delta, 25; Edo, 18; Enugu, 17; and Gombe, 11.
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