Constitutional amendment : No Federal allocation for LGAs without elected chair — Senate.

The Senate constitutional amendment committee on Thursday recommended that the release of federal allocation to local government in the country be hinged on the conduct of elections.
 

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and Chairman of committee stated this while presenting the status report of the committee on the floor of the Senate. 

He said Section 7 of the Constitution was amended to strengthen local government administration by providing a uniform 3-year tenure for elected local government council officials. 

” Local Governments without a democratically elected council shall not be entitled to any revenue from the Federation Account. These amendments amongst others we believe will ensure effective service delivery and insulate local governments from undue and counter-productive interferences from state governments, “he said. 

On distributable pool account, he said Section 162 of the Constitution was amended to provide for national savings of 50% of oil revenues above the bench mark for a particular year and 10% of any non- oil revenue paid into the Federation Account.

” Or such other percentage not less than that provided in this section as the National Assembly may determine in the Appropriation Act of a particular year.

” Any such savings as stipulated in this section will be distributed in accordance with the prevailing revenue sharing formula and in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution provided that the savings shall not be distributed in any period less than ten years from the date of a particular savings,”he said.