Falana to Makinde: ‘Pay off elected Chairmen or allow them serve their tenure’

Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has reacted to the lingering local government crisis in Oyo State, urging Governor Seyi Makinde to either allow the sacked elected Chairmen to serve out their tenure or pay them off if they won’t be allowed to complete their tenure.

Falana declared  that caretaker chairmen were unknown to the nation’s constitution, just as he charged the governor to rather speed up the process of conducting a local government election in the state.

He stated this during the maiden edition of Emeritus Professor Muyiwa Awe Annual Memorial Lecture, held at the University of Ibadan, on Monday.

Responding to journalists on way out of the local government crisis in Oyo State, Falana further submitted “The governor will have to speed up election of Local Government officials because the caretaker committees are unknown to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Once the Local Government chairmen have been elected, they have to serve their tenure and if at all you are not allowing them to finish their tenure, you will have to pay them. This is the position of the law.”