Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abdulrasaq Atunwa has said the fight against corruption in Nigeria will be difficult to win if the Freedom of Information Act is not made totally applicable. Atunwa said the law should now be domesticated by all state Houses of Assembly so that it can help stamp out the menace from the polity.

Atunwa spoke shortly after Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed presented the 2013 appropriation bill before the legislature.

Also, he urged Nigerians to cultivate the habit of making local government chairmen and councillors accountable to the people who elected them into office instead of shifting focus and expectations to the state and federal governments alone. According to him, many Nigerians are still ignorant of the role of the local government councils as the third tier of government where their needs should be channelled to.

He condemned the practice where elected councillors in the local governments only report to collect monthly salaries and wait for another month without necessarily doing their statutory functions and therefore implored Nigerians to make the local governments accountable to them.