President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday accused state governors of pocketing local government allocations.
He spoke at the Presidential Villa in Abuja at an event hosted for members of the Senior Executive Course 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.
He said it beats anyone’s imagination how some state governors would collect money on behalf of council areas in their states, only to remit just half of such allocation to the council chairman, who would further deplete the remittance in further pilfering of public resources.
Buhari said such actions were rather despicable and spoke of the height of corruption in the country.
He flayed the tendency of some governors to encourage corruption at the local government system, thereby inhibiting development at the grassroots.
He said the recommendations contained in the presentation of SEC 44 would be painstakingly studied by the government with a view to implementing them.
However, president Buhari said his administration had done so much in building trust between the government and the people.
