By Erinola Olamilekan
The Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) has held its National Executive Council meeting in Lagos to discuss Paris club refund and other critical issues affecting the association.
In his welcome address, Mr Alabi David, ALGON’s President and Chairman, Bariga Local Government said that the NEC was to take critical decisions on the report of the committee assign to look into the issues.
According to him, those issues are the comprehensive primary healthcare centres built in the local government, the intriguing legal matters particularly the pectoral of cases that confronted the association.
“The committee for breast cancer case transaction will also have to present its findings and recommendations in the course of today’s deliberation.
“The status of the ALGON American hospital is also part of what we have to discuss today.
“The issue that is also in the kitty that we also want to discuss is the Paris club refund and also our income from our investment infrastructure bank.
“Among what we also have to discuss is the transition programme,” he said.
The president charged members of the association to demonstrate affable astute disposition and the need to ensue violence, bitterness and bigotry in the country.
David said that the daunting task ahead require collective responsibility and cooperation to further intensity effort in clamping down all manner of social vices which indeed have monumental consequences in our various community.
“You are welcome to this important meeting, the very first holding after the 2023 general elections
“Significantly as it were in many ways and in spite of the precarious impliction and presumptuous instability occasion by the just concluded elections.
“Let me retreat my special appreciation to you all in your obligation to ensure predictability and peaceful coexistence In our various communities within the grandiose of loving our neighbors as ourselves.
“With nostalgic thought, however, I am not unmindful of our colleagues who had emotionally invested their time and resource in quest to strife to higher grounds in public service.
“They were unfortunate in this by the unexpected circumstances of the elections.
“On the other hand, I seize this opportunity with the utmost humility to convey my warm felicitation to our colleagues who were victorious by the will of God and the propensity to drive their thoughts for the betterment 9f Nigeria. “Hearty congratulation to those my colleagues that triumph.
“Honorable colleagues, we must demonstrate, affable astute disposition and the need to ensue violence, bitterness and bigotry.
“The daunting task ahead require our collective responsibility and cooperation to further intensity effort in clamping down all manner of social vices which indeed have monumental consequences in our various community,” he said.
