Kwara Must Change To commence Local Govt And Executive Watch

A leading pro democracy group, Kwara Must Change, in conjunction with Grand Plan Consult has announced plan to commence an assessment of the Executive and Local Government, which it described as Local Government Watch (LGW) and Executive Watch (EW).

This came, few weeks after the public presentation of its maiden assessment report on the legislators, known as Legislative Watch (LW).

In a statement by Convener of Kwara Must Change, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, the group stated that, sustainable development is beyond individual performance and the group is institutionalizing governance accountability to ensure all arms of government and departments are functioning at their uptimum.

Hamzat explained that, all of the performance measuring instruments being developed by Grand Plan and Kwara Must Change are to be known as Good Governance Watch (GGW), a series of professional assesement of government institutions in order to strengthen them to function uptimally.

According to him, these assesement templates being developed by Kwara Must Change should not be misunderstood as being overbearing, but rather, it should be seen as a baseline assesement for different arms of government and institutions.

“World over, baseline assesements are used to determine current state of affairs in an environment, so as to determine most appropriate cause of action that would assist in improving the situation”.

Local Government Watch (LGW) and Executive Watch (EW) should therefore be seen as tools to assist government in helping our institutions work better.

“In furtherance to our quest to become an organization that institutionalized good governance and accountability, devoid of undue personalization of governance processes, and following the massive success of our maiden report on the Legislative Watch, we are notifying the public of our decision to commence the development of Local Government and Executive Watch” he said.

Hamzat maintained that, Local Government and Executive watch is not the assesement of individual head of a local government or government MDA, but the general assesement of both political and administrative affairs.

He therefore urges all Kwarans to support Kwara Must Change’s mild efforts at enshrining institutional based good governance in the state of harmony.