By Vincent Ujumadu
AWKA—HUNDREDS of workers from the 21 local government areas of Anambra State yesterday marched through major streets in Awka to protest non-passage of the local government autonomy bill by the state House of Assembly.
Yesterday’s protest was a follow up to an advocacy visit to the House by a coalition of Civil Society-Labour Alliance in Anambra State which took place last week. Shortly after the visit, the state legislature considered the amendments as passed by the national assembly.
Programme Manager of Community Empowerment Network, Elder Eloka Okafor and the state President of National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Comrade Jerry Nnubia, who led yesterday’s protest, regretted that the state legislature considered 15 clauses on the constitutional amendment as passed by the National Assembly, but refused to grant autonomy to the local…
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