The Osun State House of Assembly on Friday, 5 December, 2025 passed the Osun State Local Government Accounts Administration Bill, 2025, to regulate the opening, management, and operation of local government accounts.
The Assembly said the passage of the bill marked a significant step toward strengthening financial governance and transparency across the state’s 30 local government areas and area councils.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Olamide Tiamiyu, who made this disclosure through a statement issued on Friday, 5 December, 2025 in Osogbo, the state capital on Friday, noted that the legislation was designed to “regulate the opening, management, and operation of Local Government Accounts in accordance with Section 7 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), which empowers the State Assembly to legislate on local government finances.”
“The bill seeks to enhance accountability, prevent financial misuse, and ensure strict compliance with statutory fiscal procedures at the local government level.
“Under the new framework, signatory authority on all local government accounts will now rest solely with the Directors of Finance and the Directors of Administration and General Services of the local government areas.
“The bill expressly prohibits political office holders and their appointees from serving as signatories to these accounts— a move widely viewed as an effort to eliminate undue political interference in local government finances, ” Tiamiyi said in the statement.
The CPS added in the statement that his principal noted that once signed, the legislation would promote greater financial prudence, institutional integrity, and improved service delivery in grassroots administrations.
Addressing the parliament after the bill was passed, the Speaker of the House, Adewale Egbedun, said a clean copy of the bill would be transmitted to the Governor, Ademola Adeleke, for assent.
It added, “The bill seeks to enhance accountability, prevent financial misuse, and ensure strict compliance with statutory fiscal procedures at the local government level.
