The Federal Govt has threatened prison time period for Native Govt Department chairmen tampering with the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee budget.
This was once made identified by means of the Lawyer Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), on Thursday.
Fagbemi, on the Seventeenth-anniversary annual lecture tournament of the Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria in Abuja, stated not one of the chairmen have immunity and could be jailed in the event that they tamper with the budget supposed for the advance in their fields.
He stated, “Neatly, we’ve got a condition on our arms; I do know that it’s nonetheless there; the habits of elections is to be undertaken by means of the states.
“However the difference is that this: don’t omit, the governors have immunity, the native govt council chairmen or councillors, they have got deny immunity, so they have got to make a choice from coping with the budget of the native govt as they prefer and risking getting to prison. The selection is theirs (LG chairmen).
“In the event that they wish to tamper with those budget and finally end up in prison, it’s their selection. In the event that they wish to scribble their names in letters of gold, actions like building or highway upgrades will have to be returned to the native govt. They don’t all have to return to Abuja.
“If they stay at the local government, we will be able to reduce the level of insecurity that we have in Nigeria today. What obtains offshore is that the security agents are able to perform optimally because of information that comes to them from members of the public and usually it is from the grassroots.”
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