The Nigerian Labour Congress and members of the judiciary, legislative and parliamentary arms of government in South West on Wednesday staged a protest in Ibadan demanding the implementation of local government financial autonomy bill passed by the national assembly.
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The labour unions are also demanding that local governments across the country be allowed to operate freely without the interference of the state and federal governments
Members of the civil societies made their grievances known at a protest also held in Ibadan.
The peaceful protest which kicked off from NLC secretariat Agodi,Ibadan took the protesters to the Oyo state House of Assembly to solicit the support of the house to hasten the passage of local government financial autonomy bill into law at the state level in the south west.
The NLC chairman Oyo state Kayode Martins said the protest was necessary because the three power of the local government has been overtaken by the state and federal government.
He said the grassroots government remains a very important tier of government as contained in the constitution.
The Lagos state chairperson of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Funmi Selsi,, said the affiliated unions are out to ensure that the demands are fixed in the constitution before the country’s next administration takes power.
Addressing the protesters,the speaker of Oyo state house of Assembly,Adebo Ogundoyin pledged the readiness of the assembly to support the implementation of the bill.
Ogundoyin added that Oyo assembly would convene the meeting of assemblies in the south west to fashion out modalities for the realization of the bill.
