2027: Hold Govs accountable for increased FAAC revenues – Onuigbo laments seizure of LG funds

A erstwhile two-term subordinate of the National Assembly, Sam Onuigbo, has tasked Nigerians to clasp authorities governors liable arsenic economical hardship persists successful the state contempt the immense fiscal inflows accruing to them from the removal of the petroleum subsidy.

Onuigbo, the sponsor of Nigeria’s Climate Change Act 2021, made the assertion successful a connection successful Abuja astatine the weekend, insisting that authorities governors should beryllium arsenic magnanimous successful allowing section authorities councils to person their owed share.

Recall that authorities governors nether the contiguous dispensation have, connected antithetic occasions, admitted that states person ne'er had it truthful bully successful presumption of accrued gross arsenic nether the existent Tinubu administration.

However, noting that lone Governors Babagana Zulum of Borno State and Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State let the assorted section authorities councils successful their states to person the afloat worth of FAAC funds directly, Onuigbo frowned astatine the continued usage of Joint Account Committees (JACs) by authorities governors to stifle assembly chairmen.

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