#Thread on Financial Autonomy for State Legislatures and Judiciary
1/State Legislatures and Judiciary were granted financial autonomy in the 4th Alteration to the 1999 Constitution, which was passed by @nassnigeria in 2017 and signed by @MBuhari in June 2018.
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1/State Legislatures and Judiciary were granted financial autonomy in the 4th Alteration to the 1999 Constitution, which was passed by @nassnigeria in 2017 and signed by @MBuhari in June 2018.
@SituationRoomNg
2/To facilitate compliance by State Governments, the President set up a Presidential Implementation Committee on the Autonomy of State Legislature & Judiciary in March 2019 to ensure funds appropriated to these two tiers of government at the State level are paid to them directly
3/The committee recommended, among others, that States should: adopt the first line charge budgeting model operating at the Federal level when their budget is laid; set-up a State Allocation Committee; adopt a state funds management or budget process law to improve budgeting
4/ The same constitution amendment had been done in 2010 for @nassnigeria and the Federal judiciary. It appears the recent Executive Order is intended to give force to the recent constitutional amendment and the committee’s recommendations to ensure implementation by States.
