Gassa
I have already read this news article. I hope you will
be able to post us the Local Government Bill so that
we can be in a better position to ascertain whether
the forthcoming Local Government Election will make a
big difference from what we experience during the
First Republic.
Please keep us posted.
Sanusi
--- Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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<P>Culled from The Independent of April 5, 2002.</P>
<P align=center><B><FONT size=5>As IEC set election
date Local Gov’t Bill set for enactment</FONT></B>
<P align=left>Reports reaching The Independent suggest
that the long awaited Local Government Bill, which
would eventually pave the way for the Local Government
election will on April 8 be tabled before members of
the National Assembly for enactment. Sources intimated
that a draft copy of the Bill has been sent to the
Speaker of the National Assembly, which will enact it
in its next sitting. According to sources close to the
Department of State for Local Government and Lands,
the Bill signed by the then Secretary of State for
Local Government and Lands Momodou Nai Ceesay was
prepared since last year in accordance with section
193 (1) of the 1997 constitution, which stated that
“local government administration in the country shall
be based on a system of democratically elected
councils with a high degree of autonomy’’.
<P align=left>Sources further added that the draft
Bill was also based on the directive principles of the
state policy section 214(3), which stated that the
“state shall be guided by the principles of
decentralization and devolution of governmental
functions and powers to the people at the appropriate
levels of control to facilitate democratic
governance.’’ Sources added that the Bill was also
prepared in the spirit of part 111 of Vision 2020 on
strategic issues, which aims to encourage
participatory governance and a balanced development,
as government pursue an intensive political and
institutional decentralization process.
<P align=left>All these our sources added shall
contribute to poverty alleviation and diffuse the
different socio-economic tensions that spring out of
rapid population growth, rural-urban drift,
unemployment and regional disparities in economic
development. Sources further noted that the innovation
of the Bill reflect the need for the Local Government
Authorities to effectively and efficiently operate
within the legal framework that is reflective of the
imperatives of the would-be new dispensation. The
institutionalization cum legalization of the Ward
Development Committees, as well as Community based
organisations, are innovations intended to empower
communities and individuals in determining their
development priorities and ensure their enlightened
participation in democratic governance.
<P align=left>Sources further noted that the raison
d’ętre for all this is predicated on the fact that
popular participation in national democratic
processes, government, as well as socio-economic
development, will not only change the nature and
direction of the developmental interventions, but will
also lead to a type of development, which is more
responsive to people’s needs, desires and ipso facto,
demand-driven. Meanwhile an insider at the National
Assembly has told our reporter that the Speaker
Sheriff Mustapha Dibba and Assembly members have
received a draft copy of the Bill, which would be
enacted in the next sitting of the Assembly. It could
be recalled that the delay in processing the Bill by
the Department of State for Local Governments and
Lands has forced the Independent Electoral Commission
(IEC) to postpone the election, which was slated for
November 16, 2001. </P>
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