As reports concerning the local government autonomy continues to make the rounds, a media personnel and song writer, Kayode Sanni has revealed that the country now runs a system whereby people are allowed to take actions without thinking or facing the consequences.
Sanni stated this on Monday during an interview session with The Communicator’s blog concerning the judgement of the Supreme court on local government autonomy.
According him, he is of the opinion that there should be an administration which would be responsible for checkmating the actions of people in power either at local government , state government or federal government.
”There is a level of power that has been with the local government and the question is, what were they doing with the power has at then? These are the questions that needs to be answered. I can’t remember the year yet but there was a time they did an audit for all the local government in Oyo State and they realized that so much mismanagement was done”.
While speaking on the need for citizens to engage their Chairmen, he emphasized that measures should be rolled out to allow proper conversations for effective governance.
” How can citizens now begin to hold local government accountable , because like I said, we have to divise a system that can checkmate the operations of the local government. I don’t want to hear in the next one week or next two months that a local government chairman is appointing one hundred aides , for what? because these are the things that are not surprising to find out about people in power ”.
The country we find ourselves now doesn’t care about CHECK AND BALANCE.And without check and balance there can never be a successful Government.The System of Government in Nigeria is more of imposing on it’s citizens rather than listening to their own perspective and views.