By Stanley Onyekwere
The Forum for Local Government Heads of Administration in Nigeria has stressed the need to harmonise its members condition of service, which
resolve the discrepancies in the salary structure and designation for heads of Local Government Administration.
Making this point during a meeting of the executives on Wednesday in Abuja, President of the forum, Abdulrahaman Marafa, appealed to the government to as a matter of policy to harmonize the structure of the forum in all the local governments.
According to him, Local Governments as the third tier of government, the heads of local government administration serve as an engine room where programmes and polices emanating are descended to departments in local government and down to the grassroot, there is need for uniformity.
He said: “There is every need for uniformity in salary and designation, in some states it is Director Personnel Management, Head of Administration, Director Administration, which ought to be same all over.
“The salaries too are not the same, which is not good. What is obtainable in state ‘A’ should be same in state B and C, there should be the same salary structure in all the 774 local governments in the country, including condition of service.”
Marafa, who is also the head of local government administration, Batagarawa Local Government in Katsina state, explained that as the third tier of government, LGAs should be given the desired treatment.
On his part, one of the participants and head of administration Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Attahiru Ibrahim Yakubu, said the FCT Area Councils are in support of the forum’s position.
“We in FCT are in support of the demand, and will support what the forum believes in”, he stressed.
