NSHA Speaker Commends NASS Over Passage Of LG Autonomy

Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly (NSHA), Ibrahim Abdullahi Balarabe has commended members of the National Assembly (NASS) for granting financial and administrative autonomy to the local government authority. 

The Speaker gave the commendation Thursday,when the members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) North Central States, visit the Assembly Complex, Lafia, demanding autonomy for Local Government, Judiciary and the Legislature.

According to him, local government autonomy is long over due in the country in order to ensure grassroots development. 

“This struggle is our own struggle. It is a collective struggle and we must fight it to the end. 

“We in Nasarawa Assembly are labour friendly, NLC in the State can attest to that, the issue of local government autonomy is long overdue and I want to assure you that we shall do your bidding, go home and sleep, when we get communication on LG Autonomy we will give it expeditious passage, it's long overdue. 

“On the issue of judicial and Legislative autonomy, I can confidently say that nobody can change the autonomy of the legislature and Judiciary because it's already a constitutional matter. 

“What remains on the issue of state legislature and judiciary autonomy is Implementation.

“Very soon, their implementations will commence by the grace of God,” the Speaker said.

Earlier, Comrade Yusuf Sarki Iya, the NLC Chairman, Nasarawa State who led other NLC Chairmen of the North Central States said that the peaceful protest was to demand for state legislature and judiciary autonomy as well as autonomy for local government.

Iya said that autonomy would promote transparency, accountability and good governance in the country.

The NLC Chairman commended the House for being workers friendly and called for its sustenance.