29^th March 2023 | Community Town Hall Meeting 

Special Guests:

• Mr Aminu Abubakar Sodangi, Supervisory Councillor, Maradun LG

Citizens have a tendency to overlook the affairs of local governments or matters of state governance to concentrate on the bigger picture at the federal level. Yet, governance begins from the government closest to people at the grassroots: the local government.

The second #MyLG town hall meeting in Maradun was attended by the councilors representing Kaya word, Maradun South, Damaga/Gamagiwa, and Dosara/Birnin, Kaya respectively. Also in attendance were representatives of civil society organizations, social media organizations, and many others. The motive of the meeting was themed “Ensuring Active Citizens participation in Local Government Governance,” was to search for different methods of improving citizens’ involvement in local governance, particularly in areas of policy-making, project tracking, implementation, and evaluation.

The meeting’s interactive session saw conversations around the roles of the local government in providing social amenities for the community, the importance of citizens’ participation in budgeting, and techniques to engage the youth.

Resolutions charged the local government to provide birth, death, and marriage registrars within the community, provide social amenities, revamp the local market, assist school children with learning materials in schools as well as maintain law and order. Citizens and people with disabilities (PWD) were encouraged to engage their local government officials from time to time.  

29^th March 2023 | Community Town Hall Meeting 

Special Guests:

• Councilor of Gamaga/Gamagiwa ward, Mubarak Aminu Gama Giwa
• Councilor of Kaya ward, Bello Abdulkhadir
• Councilor of Dosara/Birnin ward, Shehu Hassan Mancy
• Nabilu Lawali, CJ Maradun.

Keeping up with the MyLG project in Zamfara state, the 2^nd Maradun local government town hall meeting was held to look for possible ways towards improving citizens’ involvement in Maradun local governance, particularly policy-making, project tracking, implementation, and evaluation.

The meeting titled “Ensuring Active Citizens participation in Local Government Governance” was attended by representatives of the local government administration, representatives of civil societies, and media groups.

Interactions between the local government officials and citizens wove around the active participation of citizens, civil societies, and persons with disabilities (PWD) in governance, provision of birth, death, and marriage registrars for certification, covering the shortage of water supply in the community, provision of necessary social amenities including feeder roads, better market, and support for education within the community.

After hearing views from different participants on how citizens can actively participate in governance, citizens were encouraged to assist good governance by performing civic duties and keeping to law and order.

Below are pictorial representations of the participants.