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Uncertainty surrounds the fate of local government caretaker committees in 20 states of the federation following Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment that outlawed their existence.
In the landmark judgment, the apex court granted local governments both administrative and fiscal autonomies, declaring that they can only be governed by democratically elected councils.
The situation has left not only officials of the caretaker committees but also workers and contractors wondering what fate awaits them, especially with the declaration by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, that the judgment would take immediate effect.
Among states where local governments are governed by caretaker committees are Ondo, Anambra, Jigawa, Rivers, Zamfara, Benue, Plateau, Abia, Enugu, Katsina, Kano and Sokoto.
Others include Yobe, Osun, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Kwara, Imo and Bauchi.
Workers in some of the affected local governments are worried about how to receive their entitlements if the federal government makes good the directive that funds should not be sent to local governments without democratically elected officials.
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