BREAKING: Supreme Court Grants Autonomy To LGAs, Declares Joint Accounts Illegal

The Supreme Court has ordered the direct payment of local government funds to their accounts in a landmark judgment that is set to free the local governments from the control of the governors.

GWG.ng reports that in the landmark judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the Supreme Court jurists affirmed that the operation of the of the state/ local government joint accounts was illegal and contrary to the provisions of Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

The Attorney General of the Federation, AGF Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN had taken the governors to court to declare the state local government accounts as illegal.

GWG.ng reports that the move by the AGF appeared an irony given that Fagbemi had in the past been the counsel of the governors in a previous case to uphold the state/local government joint accounts.

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