Buhari accuses Govs of stealing LG allocations

Barely 24 hours after the federal government heaped the blame for the growing poverty on them, President Muhammadu Buhari has again accused state governors of thwarting development in the country by tinkering with local governments’ allocations.

According to the president, governors force council chairmen to sign that they have received 100 percent of funds allotted to local governments but pocket half of what the council chairmen signed for.

‘‘What they did, this is my personal experience, if the money from the Federation Account to the State is about N100 million, N50 million will be sent to the chairman but he will sign that he received N100 million. The governor will pocket the balance and share it with whoever he wants to share it with.”