Joint account, conduit pipe of corruption for govs — NULGE

The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) Tuesday said the joint account system had become a conduit pipe of corruption for state governors.

It urged the National Assembly to use the opportunity of the constitutional amendment to scrap the section joining state and local governments’ accounts.

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Addressing newsmen in Abuja, NULGE President, Ambali Olatunji: said, “We believe that the problem bedeviling local governments is constitutional and structural. That clause, the joint account allocation committee, was drafted into the constitution by those who meant well, but unfortunately, it has become a bastion of corruption.

“It has become a conduit pipe through which local government funds are being pilfered, diverted and naturally stolen by the state political actors.