RAYMOND OZOJI reports
As Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo gets set for his 3rd anniversary on March 17th this year, the Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Matters Hon. Tony Collins Nwabunwanne says Soludo is the first Anambra governor to resolve all community crisis in the 179 communities of the state.
Nwabunwanne also stated that the state would be celebrating a local government system that is totally liberated from executive incursions and interferences at the governor's 3rd anniversary celebration in the coming weeks.
Nwabunwanne who spoke to HEADLINE NEWS in his office at the Government House Awka on Tuesday, recalled that when the Soludo administration came on board three years ago there were a lot of caretaker committees in the communities.
Crisis and clash of interests, according to him, were the order of the day as people disobeyed and flouted court orders while traditional rulers and presidents-general were enmeshed in supremacy battles.
He however disclosed that it was the present administration that reinstated the Presidents-General of Agulu, Nkwelle-Ezunaka and some others who had court orders to be installed as PGs having won their town union elections but were thrown out of office.
He also stated that Governor Soludo has fulfilled his promise to Ndi-Anambra of conducting local government elections. The Commissioner stated that the state conducted the most peaceful local government elections that people now celebrated and emulated across the Nigerian federation.
He was however of the opinion that the 21 Local Government Areas in the state now have duly elected officials and that for the very first time in the history of Anambra State, the Congress of Councilors have passed budgets for the local governments, adding that the governor has systematically put the local governments in the right direction.
Nwabunwanne further disclosed that the traditional rulers in Anambra State now have a well constituted council where every traditional ruler has a platform to contribute to the development of the state, noting that it was in his era that all that has to do with the local governments, chieftaincy and community affairs simultaneously have been able to achieve great milestones in the present administration.
He said local governments now have their own IGR and revenue windows and that Soludo was the first governor to start implementing total financial independence for the council areas in compliance with supreme court order on local government autonomy.
He said it was only through being objective that the present state government was able to achieve peace and stability in the communities and that due process of the law will always take its cause even as he stated that the newly created Operation Udo Ga Achi Security Outfit is yielding positive results in the communities because Soludo, according to him, is dealing with the foundation of the problems confronting communities.
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