Yakubu Dogara, says granting autonomy to the local government areas in the country would guarantee development at the grassroots

 
   Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, says  granting autonomy to the local government areas in the country would guarantee development at the grassroots.

   This came as the National President of the National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Ibrahim Khaleel, urged the Speaker to plead with President Muhammadu Buhari to stop state governors from violating the constitutional roles of local government officials.
  Speaking when the officials of NULGE paid him a visit in Abuja, the Speaker said the House was working to grant financial autonomy to local governments in the ongoing constitution alteration exercise because it was the only way to guarantee development at the grassroots.
  Dogara told local government workers to step up agitation for local government autonomy, saying it was only through their individual and collective efforts that the desired change would be achieved.