The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, Nigeria Union of Local Employees, NULGE and Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN in South West have engaged in peaceful protest in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital to demand the implementation of local government financial autonomy bill as passed by the National Assembly.
The peaceful protest which kicked off from the Nigeria Labour Congress Secretariat, Agodi, took the protesters to the Oyo State House of Assembly, OYHA, to solicit the support of the house to hasten the passage of local government financial autonomy bill into law at the state level in the south-west.
Addressing the protesters, the speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Adebo Ogundoyin pledged the readiness of the assembly to support the implementation of the bill.
Mr Ogundoyin added that Oyo Assembly would convene the meeting of assemblies in the southwest to fashion out modalities for the realization of the bill.
Earlier, Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, Oyo State, Olukayode Martins said it was vital that the judiciary, state assembly and local government be granted autonomy to promote good governance.
Funmilola Obagbayegun
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