HUMAN RESOURCE EXPERT RAISES ALARM ON NEED FOR LOCAL GOVT ACCOUNTABILITY

The Managing Director Prime Consulting Mr Garba Abdu Ganger has raised concerns over the need to have serious measures for ensuring that elected and appointed officials of Local Government Administration (LGA) are held accountable for their actions and inactions.

 

Speaking in an interview, he said that autonomy will lose its potentials if there are no prerequisite sanctions because the system needs to be cleansed from corruption before autonomy can have effects.

“No matter how little whatever that is given to the local government authorities, if it is properly used, the effects will show. If they are unable to use the little they get, it will also be impossible to use better resources that may come to them because corruption is too much in the system” he said.

 

He said that with the level of corruption except sanctions are created and modified in accordance with rule of law there will not be compliance to rules and regulations for good governance.

“Sanctions should be beyond the formal justice system, what is applicable to a person should also be to others, the society should create social sanctions to demand for what is their rights, social sanction is even stronger than legal sanction because it is a watch and caution system for accountability”.

“This looks like a tall order but it can give rest of mind, there is a point in people suspecting you because you keep and use their money anyhow, you are also not enjoying your life because of what you are hiding from people, when you want to come on board and you realize that you do not have good will and social capital because of the way you have operated”. 

He said that people employed in local government should be those who have passion for it, the skills, knowledge and qualifications, stressing that anybody who wants better salaries from what is offered should look into the private sector instead of taking the appointments away from people who have passion for the work.