‘Enugu not tampering with council allocations’

By  Vivian Enebeli

THE steady improvement in the infrastructural development in Enugu State, particularly in the local government areas, has been attributed to the decision by the state government not to tamper with the councils allocations from the federation account, the chairman of Isi-Uzo Local Government Area, Dr. Sam Ugwu has revealed.

Ugwu, said the state will never be the same by the time Barrister Sullivan Chime, the state governor, finishes his first term.

While reeling out some of his executed projects, about 100 of it, in the last one and half years since he became the executive chairman of the council, Ugwu said his success so far, just like in other local government areas, is attributed to the assistance but more importantly the non-tampering with its local government allocation.

“The difference between then and now is that you could see developmental projects on ground, going on simultaneously in all the local government areas of the state.

The state government takes its own and the local government takes its own. The money gets to the local government, and that is why whoever fails to work should have himself or herself to blame.

The governor does his work and he allows us to do our own. There is no interference at all. The kind of work that is being done in all parts of the state, there has never been anything like that before,” he added.