The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi has issued a warning to state governors bypassing the Supreme Court judgment on local government autonomy.
Fagbemi said this on Thursday in Abuja at the 2024 annual conference of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents.
Recall that the Supreme Court delivered a judgment affirming the financial autonomy of the 774 local government areas in the country on July 11, 2024.
The court also directed the Accountant-General of the Federation to pay local government allocations directly to their accounts, saying that the non-remittance of funds by the 36 states unconstitutional.