The Nigerian Financial Intelligent Unit made it known on Sunday that the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees had reported state governors who had been stealing local governments’ funds.
It was reported that the NULGE has written a letter to “774 local governments” across the country to alert them on the plans of the state governors to steal the local government funds.
The National President of NULGE, Ibrahim Khaleel made it known that the state governments had come up with another means of looting money from the local governments’ accounts despite the NFIU financial guidelines.
Khaleel further expressed his accusation that the state governments across the country are forcing the local governments to pay levies to them from the fund apportioned to the councils from the federal account.
He also said that the local governments were being asked to contribute to the running of some projects in states which ordinarily were the responsibilities of state governments.
He however said he had not been fully briefed on the matter and as such could not give the names of the affected governors.
He said: “I can confirm to you that NULGE has officially informed the unit of the development. I have however not been officially briefed on the matter”.
