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Anambra local government law criticised for defying Supreme Court ruling
Original: Anambra’s Local Government Law 2024: The Art of Obeying the Supreme Court While Ignoring It Completely by Lawson Akhigbe
Lawson Akhigbe argues that Anambra State's Local Government Law 2024 formally complies with the Supreme Court's judgment on local government autonomy while in practice undermining it. He contends the state government publicly endorses the ruling on fiscal autonomy for local councils but structures the new law to retain control over their affairs, calling it a contradiction at the heart of Nigerian federalism.
Why now: The Supreme Court's ruling on local government autonomy remains contested, and critics see Anambra's new law as a test case of whether states will genuinely comply.
Anambra StateSupreme Court of NigeriaLawson Akhigbe
Evidence
- Anambra’s Local Government Law 2024: The Art of Obeying the Supreme Court While Ignoring It Completely by Lawson Akhigbe In the grand theatre of Nigerian federalism, few performances are more impressive than watching a state government loudly applaud a Supreme Court judgment… · lawakhigbe.com@lawakhigbe.com · 2
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