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LG Reforms, Solution To Insecurity, Infrastructure Challenges -Reps
The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Ahmed Wase, said, yesterday, that the raging insecurity in the country could be drastically addressed with the reformation of the local tier of government.
Wase said this while declaring to open a leadership training programme for elected local government chairmen and councillors from Delta State in Abuja.
He assured that the Senate and House of Representatives will amend the Constitution, to overhaul the structure of local governments in the country.
“Not the third tier that when you do Federation Account Allocation some few persons will go and sit somewhere in small rooms, do all the cuttings and send out the peanuts. Meanwhile, the bulk of the problems, being it infrastructure, insecurity are there at the grassroots.
“I come from one of the remotest parts of this country. I know how local government administration was then in the past, not the one we are having today and I believe collectively all of us we can make it work again. We can change the narration, we can make it better”, Wase stated.