The National President of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Comrade Akeem Ambali, has urged the Tinubu led administration to focus more on addressing the basic problems of the Country if the government is seriously committed to fix Nigeria.
Comrade Ambali, who gave the advice at the State delegate conference of the Kaduna State Chapter of NULGE, attributed the numerous problems facing the Country to lack of viable and functional Local Governments, which has left majority of the citizens in rural areas neglected and marginalized.
He insisted that Local Government is the medium through which rural communities and grassroots access dividends of democracy and good living conditions, adding that genuine effort to fix Nigeria, should start by fixing the Local Government Councils, through financial autonomy and freehand to make them functional and result oriented.
Comrade Ambali commended members of NULGE, in Kaduna State, for their maturity, and peaceful conduct of the delegate conference which led to the return of their former Executives for second, unopposed and urged the new Executives to justify the trust and confidence reposed in them by living up to expectations .
In a message, the Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani, through the Senior Special Adviser, on Labour matters, Comrade, Adamu Ismaila, gave assurance that Local governments and their workers are on the priority list of his administration, stressing that appropriate steps would be taken to address the problems of Local governments in the State.
In his acceptance speech, the State President of NULGE, Comrade RAYANU ISYAKU Turunku, described his election and that of other members of the State Council unopposed as unprecedented, and demonstration of vote of confidence, assuring that they would not disappoint.
The new Executive members of the Union, who were elected unopposed to run the affairs of the Union for the next four years, include Comrade Rayyanu Ishaku Turunku, State President, Comrade Christopher MaiKasuwa, Deputy President, Comrade Danasabe Ibrahim, State Treasurer, Comrade Danladi
Zubairu Public Relations Officer, Comrade Ahmed Umar Tiyaye Welfare Officer and Comrade Rahila Emmanuel as State Women Wing among others.