The Nigeria Governors Forum has demanded the dissolution of the Presidential Implementation Committee on the Autonomy of State Legislature and Judiciary.
They also agreed to continue to
support measures put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19.
These were part of decisions
taken after the 17th Teleconference meeting of the NGF held on Wednesday.
This was contained in a
communique signed by the Chairman of the NGF, Kayode Fayemi, which was made
available to reporters.
It read in part, “The NGF
resolved to call for the immediate dissolution of the Presidential
Implementation Committee on the Autonomy of State Legislature and Judiciary as
this Committee is now acting as a permanent committee basically misguiding and
overheating the relationship between state governments and the other arms of
government.
“The NGF agreed on the need to
continue to maintain COVID public health guidelines and vaccination protocols
to ensure that the transmission of the virus is kept at the lowest level
possible.
“The NGF agreed on the need for
states to meet their SFTAS obligations and resolved to put the necessary legal
frameworks and institutions in place.“
Earlier, the governors received
briefings from several of its committees reviewing issues and areas of interest
to states.
The communique further read,
“The NGF Chairman briefed the Forum on an ongoing consolidation exercise
between the Forum
and the Budget Office of the Federation to consolidate public finance data of
the federal, states and local governments into a national budget portal.
“He urged his colleagues to share
details of their local government budgets and financial statements in addition
to State government data already published.“
On the vexed issue of Executive
Order 10, the communique read, “ Talks have reached an advanced stage with the
Ministry of Labour, Conference of Speakers, National Judicial Council and the
NGF. All parties are working earnestly to resolve the issues surrounding the
implementation of the order.
“There are however legal aspects
of the order that need to be tied up, but which cannot take place if officials
responsible for
these final processes are on strike.
Governors are happy to implement the demands of the Judiciary and the
Legislature.
“The NGF-NESG Economic
Roundtable (NNER) Steering Committee was inaugurated on Wednesday 21st April
2021.
“The roundtable is a
sub-national platform expression of the NGF and NESG, based on a Memorandum of
Understanding that was signed between both institutions at the 23rd Nigerian
Economic Summit (NES) in October 2017.
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