The Speaker of the Osun House of Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salaam, has appealed to the 30 local government areas in the state to increase their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).

This is contained in a statement made to reporters in Osogbo the Osun State Capital by his Chief Press Secretary, Goke Butika, on Thursday.

He said the local governments should not continue to depend on allocations from the Federation Account to finance their operations.

Salaam in his statement urged the Local Government Service Commission and the Ministry of Local Government to take a concrete measure by fashioning out ways through which the councils could improve their finances.

The speaker however charged said standing Committee on Local Government Affairs, monitor the councils way of generating revenue. He therefore advised each council to develop its agricultural potential so as to generate revenue for the development of the area and the state at large.