'Creation of new councils in Kwara not feasible now' - Gov. Ahmed
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara StateGOVERNOR Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has said that it would take only a bad economist to at present create additional local government areas (LGA) citing financial challenges currently confronting the state government.
Speaking yesterday on a periodic interactive media programme, 'Governor Explains', in Ilorin Ahmed said that with backlog of salaries owed workers at the LGAs, the creation of additional councils should wait.
It is recalled that a committee, headed by a former National Chairman of defunct new-PDP, Kawu Baraje, was inaugurated by the governor last year to look at modalities of new local government creation, based on requests by people in the state.
"We have not cancelled our desire to create new local governments. It's still in the pipeline but it is heavily relied on resources. If we have challenges with the existing 16 local governments, I don't think it's going to be expedient to begin to create new ones. But they are still in the pipeline. We will still create additional local governments," he said.
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