THE Human Rights Monitoring Agenda (HURMA) has demanded an open and official reversal of the suspension placed on Chairman of Alimosho Local Council by the Lagos State House of Assembly, to set the record straight.
In a letter addressed to President Bola Tinubu, signed by its Executive Director, Buna Olaitan Isiak, yesterday, the group said though the recent intervention by the President has somehow restored peace and unhindered operation in the affected council with the lifting of the suspension, the lawmakers should make the reversal official, except they have a sinister motive.
Isiak noted that the Supreme Court judgment is a victory for the people to assert governance from below, and it must never be arm-twisted by any forces; whether it is the state government or the State House of Assembly.
Meanwhile, another group, under the aegis of the De Renaissance Patriots Foundation, has lauded the Federal Government, through the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), on release of monthly allocations direct to the constitutionally-recognised local councils.
In a statement signed by its President, Bolaji Are and Secretary-General, Yomi Tokosi, the group said: “We can now hold the elected members of the council accountable for their actions and failures. Some of us have been advocating for this initiative. We welcome this positive step by the Federal Government.”

“We hope that the state’s counterpart-funding to the council authorities will be available to them. We expect to see gradual shift to progress and better service delivery to the people at the grassroots. Thanks to the federal government for a good step forward.
“We are particularly excited about this as it happens that these allocations, with regards to the councils in Lagos State, were made directly to the 20 council authorities in line with the constitutional provisions.
“We will continue to be interested in the day-to-day administration of these local councils in our state to ensure that no scripted backdoor arrangements are done anywhere to arm-twist the council chairmen to who these allocations are paid on papers.
“At any rate, this is an interesting news of the month and it is simply what we have advocated for, to ensure that what should get to councils gets to them to enable them give governance at their grassroots level of government.”