Why LCDAs should be sustained across Lagos – Adebayo

The Lagos House of Assembly recently held public hearings on a bill to amend the state’s Local Government Administration law.

A politician and community leader in Ikeja local government area, Comrade Deji Adebayo, has argued for local council development areas to be sustained across the state.

The Lagos House of Assembly recently held public hearings on a bill to amend the state’s Local Government Administration law.

The amendment became pertinent after the Supreme Court ruled that local governments in Nigeria are entitled to financial autonomy.

Before the ruling, state governments acted as middlemen between local government and federal allocations.

Such an affordance allowed the Lagos state government to have some control over local government funding.

However, now that federal allocations are expected to directly flow to local governments, LCDAs may become sidelined as they are not recognised by the Nigerian constitution, only by the state in which they were created.

According to the Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, the 37 LCDAs in Lagos will now sit under the 20 local governments recogni…