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Nigeria: Nulge Protests Move to Abolish LG System
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Vanguard (Lagos)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Dennis Agbo
Abakaliki
MEMBERS of the Ebonyi state chapter of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), yesterday, marched round major streets of Abakaliki, protesting against the move by some state Governors to abolish the local government system in the country.
The NULGE members, who converged at their secretariat in the state capital, arrived in large numbers from all the 13 local government areas, including the rest of 64 Development council centres in the state, carried placards, obstructed traffic and terminated their protest march at the Government House where they delivered their protest letter to Governor Martin Elechi.
Some of the placards read: "leave local governments to exist"; "local government is the 3rd tier"; "protect the local governments at the grassroots"; No LG, no democracy."
In his address at the rally, the acting state President of NULGE Comrade Leonard Nkah said they were gathered to express their opposition to the abolition of the local government system in Nigeria, ventilate their grievances and protest against the injustice and malignant problems bedeviling the local government as the third tier of government.
Nkah added that the rally was also to protest the continuous tinkering with the local government statutory allocation by some states and their contempt for the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court on the funding of primary education in the country.
On the call for abolition of the local government system in Nigeria , Nkah said "NULGE was bemused, to say the least, by the recent calls by some state Governors for constitutional de-recognition of the local government in the proposed amendment of Nigeria constitution.
"The initial response of the union was to dismiss such calls since we are convinced that the calls for abolition of local government do not flow from patriotism."
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The union said it is dismayed that calls for abolition of the LGs which was dismissed alongside tenure elongation project of former President Obasanjo by the national assembly, could be coming again from some governors at a time when the nation is consolidating on the huge gains already recorded by the system.
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