Federalism in Nigeria
When the national government collects all the oil revenues and hands them out to state governors for disbursement to state and local governments, guess who gets the least. Ah, the problems of a rentier state that imposes practically no taxes.Rural Dwellers Will Continue to Suffer Lack Unless ...
Rural dwellers in Nigeria would continue to be down-trodden, suffer lack and deprivation if the Federal Government failed to increase the allocation to the third tier of government, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, has said.
"The major problem the country is facing is the top-to-bottom approach of disbursing funds instead of from bottom-to-top. The local governments are financially handicapped yet we say the people are the most important, there is the need to reverse the system," he said.
Amaechi, who met with members of the Committee on States and Local Government Affairs of the House of Representatives, in Port Harcourt, was of the view that "until we accept that the local governments are the foundation of this country and admit that they are financially handicapped to execute development projects for the people, the country will continue to decay."...
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