20 states in the country will not receive LG allocations from the federal government starting from July following a Supreme court verdict on the autonomy of the Local government.
DAILY GIST reported that the apex court delivered a judgment in a suit filed by the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, barring the federal government from releasing allocations to local governments governed by unelected officials appointed by the state governors.
In a ruling on Thursday, Justice Emmanuel Agim barred the Federal Government from further paying LG allocations through the state governments, noting that the practice had been abused by the governors.
Justice Agim accused the state governors of retaining allocations and utilising them as they please, to the detriment of the local government councils.
Following the judgment, 20 states that have no elected local government chairmen stand barred from receiving local government allocations from July until they conduct elections.
SEE THE LIST OF THE STATES BELOW:
1. Jigawa, state
2. Rivers state
3. Anambra state.
4. Imo state
5. Kwara state
6. Zamfara state
7. Bauchi state
8. Plateau state.
9. Abia state
10. Enugu state
11. Katsina state
12. Kano state
13. Sokoto state
14. Yobe state
15. Ondo state,
16. Osun state
17. Delta state
18. Akwa-Ibom state
19. Cross River
20. Benue
By implication, these states will no longer receive allocations from the following the Supreme Court judgment.
The 36 states and the FCT received N293.82bn from the federal government on behalf of the 774 local government areas in the country for the month of July.
