Jonathan Nwokpor
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The 13 Local Government Area council chairmen who were elected have been sworn in by Francis Nwifuru, the governor of Ebonyi State.
On Sunday, the Christian Ecumenical Center in Abakaliki hosted the swearing-in ceremony.
Nwifuru charged the newly elected chairman to take on their obligations, saying that local government autonomy would be both financial and administrative.
The governor assigned them the responsibility of taking excellent care of government appointees and stakeholders, such as ward councilors and traditional rulers, in order to maintain the state’s peace and unity.
“You are now autonomous both financially and administratively, and I want to assure you that myself and my wife, including all the stakeholders in the state are with you.
“Any statement you make now, we read meaning on it, including the state governor, so, if this your autonomy will make you not to stay two years, there be it, because I will fight dirty and wouldn’t talk and that’s the highest form of fighting where somebody will be fighting and wouldn’t be talking.
“Again, I want you to take care of those things that make our state beautiful and what are those things, they’re our stakeholders; take care of them and don’t be carried away with what you are seeing on Facebook, because if you act based on Facebook post and fight any of them, that’s when you are fighting the governor.
“Your job is to service the stakeholders and the stakeholders are the youth, the elders and the women; empower them and make them comfortable,” Nwifuru stressed.
As the state continues to struggle with infrastructure, he also urged them to address the subject of infrastructure development seriously and to handle their resources with prudence and assertiveness.
The governor issued a warning against imposing traditional leaders on communities, noting that the days of custodians of the people’s traditions being married to a single wife or a church catechist were long gone.
He advised communities not to put people in such positions who lack in-depth expertise since the results would be harmful to the state’s development.
During their speech, the member for the federal constituency of Ikwo/Ezza South, Comrade Chinedu Ogah, the national president of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), and the chairman of Kaduna State, Mr Abubakar Buba and his Ebonyi state counterpart, Mr Ogodo Ali-Nomeh described the approval of the local government autonomy as a good omen and thanked governor Nwifuru for implementing the law.
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