AbdulRazaq Not Touching LG Funds, Says Kwara NULGE

Kwara State Governor, Mr. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq does not
interfere in the management of allocations to the local government
councils in the state, the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of
Local Government Employees (NULGE), clarified yesterday, giving
lies to claims that the state government was pilfering local
government funds.

The governor’s Special Adviser on Political Communication,
Alhaji Bashir Adigun, has also disclosed that AbdulRazaq’s
administration has remained transparent, accountable and focused on
developments that transform lives in the state.

“The union wishes to inform the general public that monthly
allocation to all the sixteen (16) local government councils in
Kwara State is being administered by local government
representatives, and all the union leaders at local government
level are also observers at the monthly allocation meeting,” state
Secretary of Kwara State NULGE, Comrade Hotonou Rafiu, clarified in
a statement in Ilorin, the state capital.

“NULGE Kwara State chapter wishes to inform the general public
and most especially Kwarans that Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is
not stealing local government fund as captured in a report credited
to our National President Alhaji Ambali Olatunji Akeem.”

Rafiu said the misleading report has also been refuted by the
NULGE President.

“We assert that neither the Governor nor the state government is
interfering in the management of local government funds,” the NULGE
Secretary added.

The state chapter of the union meanwhile joined the national
secretariat of the NULGE to reject a bill to delist local
government from the Nigerian constitution, describing the proposal
as “outrageous.”

Meanwhile, the governor’s Special Adviser on Political
Communication, Alhaji Bashir Adigun, has also disclosed that
AbdulRazaq’s administration has remained transparent, accountable
and focused on developments that transform lives in the state.

“We are constrained to react to a mischievous publication by a
national newspaper (not THISDAY), alleging diversion of allocation
to local governments by some states including the state
government.

“The said publication is to say the least, sensational,
mischievous, unethical and failed the test of balanced
reporting.

“The report, broadcast by some radio stations and bloggers in
the state, made a weighty allegation of diversion of funds by some
state governments in its headline but nowhere in the body of the
story is this found,” Adigun explained.

Kwara State Governor, Mr. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq does not
interfere in the management of allocations to the local government
councils in the state, the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of
Local Government Employees (NULGE), clarified yesterday, giving
lies to claims that the state government was pilfering local
government funds.

The governor’s Special Adviser on Political Communication,
Alhaji Bashir Adigun, has also disclosed that AbdulRazaq’s
administration has remained transparent, accountable and focused on
developments that transform lives in the state.

“The union wishes to inform the general public that monthly
allocation to all the sixteen (16) local government councils in
Kwara State is being administered by local government
representatives, and all the union leaders at local government
level are also observers at the monthly allocation meeting,” state
Secretary of Kwara State NULGE, Comrade Hotonou Rafiu, clarified in
a statement in Ilorin, the state capital.

“NULGE Kwara State chapter wishes to inform the general public
and most especially Kwarans that Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is
not stealing local government fund as captured in a report credited
to our National President Alhaji Ambali Olatunji Akeem.”

Rafiu said the misleading report has also been refuted by the
NULGE President.

“We assert that neither the Governor nor the state government is
interfering in the management of local government funds,” the NULGE
Secretary added.

The state chapter of the union meanwhile joined the national
secretariat of the NULGE to reject a bill to delist local
government from the Nigerian constitution, describing the proposal
as “outrageous.”

Meanwhile, the governor’s Special Adviser on Political
Communication, Alhaji Bashir Adigun, has also disclosed that
AbdulRazaq’s administration has remained transparent, accountable
and focused on developments that transform lives in the state.

“We are constrained to react to a mischievous publication by a
national newspaper (not THISDAY), alleging diversion of allocation
to local governments by some states including the state
government.

“The said publication is to say the least, sensational,
mischievous, unethical and failed the test of balanced
reporting.

“The report, broadcast by some radio stations and bloggers in
the state, made a weighty allegation of diversion of funds by some
state governments in its headline but nowhere in the body of the
story is this found,” Adigun explained.