The Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Olakunle Oluomo has appealed to the State Chapter of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), to allow for further engagements between the Conference of Speakers of State legislatures and the Nigeria Governors' Forum on the modalities for the seamless implementation of financial autonomy for State legislatures.
Oluomo made the appeal today, while addressing the leadership of the Association and members in the State who were on a protest to the State Assembly complex in compliance with the directive of its national leadership to embark on indefinite industrial action over the failure of the Governors' Forum to implement autonomy for the State Legislature.
The Speaker explained that further dialogues between the concerned parties became expedient to sort out grey areas, especially on the implementation process of the autonomy as pronounced by President Muhammadu Buhari through the Executive Order 10.
Recalling the previous meetings held with the representatives of the Nigeria Governors' Forum including Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, Simon Lalong of Plateau and Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State at the instance of the Conference of Speakers leadership, Oluomo stated that the process would achieve desired result within the next two weeks, which he said would lead to smooth implementation in due course.
"The Governors agreed with us that the financial autonomy is a constitutional matter and they believe it must be so, but the area of disagreement is the method of implementing it, hence, we have submitted our proposal to them on how it could be done. They promise to take it back to their brother-governors and get back to us within two weeks, I believe that within the scheduled time, something tangible will be done", Oluomo remarked.
Earlier in his address, Chairman of the State Chapter of PASAN, Comrade James Obanla highlighted the benefits of financial autonomy to include enhancing separation of powers and promoting good governance through effective symbiotic relationships among the three arms of government.
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