Despite cash crunch that has plagues Osun State, the governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has announced the creation of 31 new Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs.
The governor, in a state broadcast in Osogbo on Tuesday, noted that he took the decision to create the new LCDAs to bring development to the people and as well generate more revenues for the state.
Aregbesola said he had sent a request to the state House of Assembly for the creation of the councils, which he said was passed.
He also used the opportunity to announce the dissolution of the management committees of the existing 30 Local Councils and Area Office, their executive secretaries, deputy executive secretaries, members, special advisers and other functionaries.
According to the governor, he would be saving huge cost with the new councils, noting that no new appointment would be made because the same number of staff will still run all the councils.
“Many would be wondering and asking: why create more councils at this special time of financial challenges? We have also given sufficient consideration to this. With this new parliamentary system, it will cost less to run the new councils and save a lot of money for the government than in the past.
“The primary responsibilities of our new local government system are sanitation, market management and revenue mobilisation and generation. This is consistent with local government administration worldwide.
“The beauty of this new system is its parliamentary nature, which requires the chairman and the vice chairman to be elected by the councillors from among their own ranks, thereby saving cost,” explained Aregbesola.
