Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede has tasked state governments, traditional rulers, and civil society organizations with the need to check the spending of local government (LG) administrations within their domains
Addressing a mixed audience of activists, traditional rulers and LG bosses at the Gombe state local government summit, Olukoyede expressed displeasure over the trend where local councils becomes Automatic Teller Machines (ATMS) for greedy public officers who feed on the ignorance of the rural population to mine public wealth for private gain.
Olukoyede further faulted the trend where local government chairmen reside in state capitals and only visit their councils once a month to share the federal allocation.