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Lagos assembly not planning to scrap LCDAs — Speaker

POSTED ON October 22, 2024 •   Politics      BY Benedicta Bassey
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa and Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu/ Photo credit: UGC

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, dismissed the claims that the Assembly is planning to scrap the local council development areas in the state.

Recall that last Thursday the assembly was planning a bill aimed at replacing the existing 37 LCDAs in the state with Area Administrative Councils.

The Bill for a Law to provide for Local Government’s System, Establishment And Administration and to Consolidate All Laws On Local Government Administration And Connected Purposes, went through a public hearing.

However, the assembly, on Monday, agreed to conduct another public hearing on the bill by inviting the state Attorney-General, Lawal Pedro, for an interpretation of the recent Supreme Court judgment on financial autonomy for local governments.

The resolutions came at a sitting presided over by Obasa on Monday.

Obasa said the review of the LG Administration law was not intended to scrap the LCDAs but to further strengthen them.

He said, “I agree on the need for us to schedule a second allotted day for the public hearing.

“We are not scrapping the LDCAs. Rather, what we are trying to do is to look at the recent Supreme Court judgement in terms of Lagos and local governments’ joint account and fashion out a way where the parent local governments and the LDCAs work together without the LDCAs being shortchanged,” he added.

The Speaker also agreed on the need to work on the formal listing of the LCDAs by the National Assembly.

“Kano has 44 local governments and out of Kano, Jigawa was created and has 27,” he said as he suggested a review of the revenue-sharing formula by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission.

He also called for a liaison and better collaboration with the National Assembly to make the upper legislature understand why the LDCAs should be listed as substantive local governments.

On his part, Desmond Elliot representing Surulere Constituency 1 noted that the size of Lagos state in terms of population and it's economic outlook calls for a proper listing of the LCDAs.

“Anambra State has 21 local governments and it is nowhere close to what Lagos has in terms of resources, economic importance and dividends of democracy,” he said.

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