The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) Kwara State Chapter has refuted claims that Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq was pilfering local governmnet funds.
The Union made the clarification on Sunday in a statement signed by Comrade Hotonou O. Rafiu, state Secretary of Kwara State NULGE.
“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,
“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.”
