The presidency has said that it is the responsibility of the local governments to fix poverty in Nigeria because they are the closest to the people.
Tofe Fasua, Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Economic Affairs (Office of the Vice President) said this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“That is why president Bola Tinubu is calling for local government autonomy,” he said.
“Fixing poverty is certainly a local government’s thing because local governments are closest to the people.
“So the solution to poverty in Nigeria is actually at the local government level, and that’s the reason the President has advocated for local government autonomy, and has also ensured that the states are a lot more powerful now in terms of funding.
“I mentioned to you the fact that those days where civil servants will be owed 18 months, 12 months, six months, have departed. “Pensioners are getting their money a lot, and I think that’s where it matters.
“I used to go to many local governments in Lagos in 1999 and I saw how local governments were working then.
“Many people were coming to the local government. “Those people who were really down financially, they would go to the local government chairman on a daily basis and they were being settled,” he said.
