President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed
into law the Fourth Alteration Bill which grants financial autonomy to State
Judiciaries and State Houses of Assembly.
Senator Ita Enang, the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), made
this disclosure to the State House correspondents on Friday.
Enang said, “I just want to
inform you that His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari today assented to the
Constitution Fourth Alteration Bill which grants financial autonomy and
independence to the Houses of Assembly of the respective states and to the
Judiciary of the respective states.
“Therefore upon this signature
the amounts standing to the credit of the judiciary are to be now be paid
directly to the judiciary of those states, no more through the governors and no
more from the governors.
“And then the amounts standing to the credit
of the Houses of Assembly of the respective states are now to be paid directly
to the Houses of Assembly of that state for the benefit of the legislators and
the management of the State Houses of Assembly.”
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