President Muhammadu Buhari, has signed into law an Executive Order to
grant financial autonomy to the legislature and the judiciary at the
State level.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr.
Abubakar Malami, SAN, who disclosed this in Abuja, said the Executive
Order number ten of 2020, made it mandatory that all States of the
Federation should include the allocations of both the Legislature and
the Judiciary in their Appropriation Laws.
According to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of
Justice, a Presidential Implementation Committee was constituted to
fashion out strategies and modalities for the implementation of
financial autonomy for the State Legislature and Judiciary in
compliance with section one hundred and twenty-one sub-section three
of the 1999 Constitution as Amended.
He said consideration was given to all other applicable laws,
instruments, conventions and regulations that provided for financial
autonomy at the State level.
Mr Malami maintained that the implementation of financial autonomy of
the State Legislature and Judiciary will strengthen the institutions
at the State level and make them more independent and accountable in
line with the tenets of democracy as enshrined in the Constitution.
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