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The Federal Government and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) have won the case against the state governors over the financial autonomy from the Local Government joint account.
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court delivered the ruling on Monday in favor of the Federal Government.
The NFIU had in June 2019 issued guidelines aimed at curbing crime vulnerabilities created by cash withdrawals from local government accounts by various state governments.
The Nigerian Governors Forum sued the FG and NFIU for interfering with state government powers to initiate transactions on Local Government Joint accounts citing provisions of the 1999 constitution.
The NFIU issued a guideline on money laundering risk and vulnerabilities advising all banks not to honor transactions from joint accounts.
It directed that the States/Local Governments Joint Accounts should use only for receiving funds and subsequently transferring them to Local government accounts only.
The guidelines also reduced cash withdrawal from local government accounts to five hundred thousand Naira daily.
Immediately after the guidelines came into place, most local governments across the country stopped facing challenges in the payment of staff salaries.
While reacting to the judgment the Director/CEO of NFIU, Mr. Modibbo Tukur said the judgment is good because the Federal government is always ready to protect both states and local governments by making funds available for their governance responsibility.
He stressed that funds can now be decided on by local councils which can be channeled to improve local security.
The CEO of NFIU stated that “from this judgment and today all transactions on Local Government funds will be disclosed to ICPC and EFCC 100% and will be reported continuously”.
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