Chairman-elect of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Yaba Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Olajide Jimoh has blamed the federal government for the lack of development at the local government level, calling for a change in the revenue sharing rule which favoured the central government.
He made this assertion at the weekend while reacting to the complaint that many of the local government councils in Lagos State had failed to develop the grassroots.
Jimoh argued that despite the small amount of money given to the local governments, they still record development at the grassroots level. According to him, there is the need to review revenue allocation formula because “a situation whereby the federal government is taking 56 per cent of the allocation of that magnitude amount of money, and the state and local government councils now share the remaining 44 per cent is uncalled for.
He noted the federal government had not returned to repair most of the roads it constructed in Lagos State.
“Some of these things have now become the responsibility of both the state and local government. The people around us are entitled to medical facilities and without health centres, there cannot be tertiary hospitals and it is the primary health centres that will take care of the immediate environment in case there is any problem.
“But with the little resources we are getting from the federation account and the back-up from the state government, we have been able to turn things around in the state. But until the allocation is jerked up, there would still be complaints on the part of the people,” he stated.
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