NG-CDF's fate sealed, time legislators kissed the fund goodbye

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On rare occasions does this column address the same subject more than once? However, the events of this past week dictate that we revert to the Supreme Court ruling of August 8, 2022, about the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF).

By deed of the apex court's ruling on the unconstitutionality of the NG-CDF Act of 2013 and the amendments of 2016, any elected State officer was duly informed that there would be no service-based mandate funds for them. I wrote about this in one of my articles shortly after the dust on the elections was settled.