{"id":57524,"date":"2024-12-03T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T09:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57524"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T09:45:05","slug":"lg-autonomy-will-distribute-wealth-alleviate-centralized-corruption-oshiomhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/03\/lg-autonomy-will-distribute-wealth-alleviate-centralized-corruption-oshiomhole\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Autonomy Will Distribute Wealth, Alleviate Centralized Corruption -Oshiomhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adams Oshiomhole, Senator representing Edo North, has expressed strong support for the financial autonomy recently granted to Nigeria&#8217;s 774 local government areas, emphasizing its potential to enhance grassroots development decentralize corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a forum organized by the House of Representatives on local government autonomy, Oshiomhole underlined the critical role local government administrations play due to their proximity to the people.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that empowering local governments financially would foster equitable distribution of resources and reduce the concentration of wealth and power in a single entity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s better to have 774 local government chairmen who are thieves than one big thief,\u201d Oshiomhole remarked.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that such autonomy would lead to the emergence of multiple local billionaires rather than consolidating wealth in the hands of a single individual at the state level.<\/p>\n<p>The former Edo State governor urged local government leaders to prioritize prudent resource allocation for vital infrastructure such as roads, healthcare facilities, and other essential public services.<\/p>\n<p>This development follows a recent Supreme Court ruling affirming the financial independence of Nigeria&#8217;s local governments.<\/p>\n<p>The decision reinforces efforts by the federal government to empower local councils, ensuring they can operate independently and deliver impactful governance to their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Adams Oshiomhole, Senator representing Edo North, has expressed strong support for the financial autonomy recently granted to Nigeria&#8217;s 774 local government areas, emphasizing its potential to enhance grassroots development decentralize corruption. Speaking at a forum organized by the House of Representatives on local government autonomy, Oshiomhole underlined the critical role local government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57526,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57524\/revisions\/57526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}