Our suspension illegal - Kwara LG chiefs

Date: 2019-12-24

Vice-chairmen and councilors in the 16 local governments of Kwara have described their suspension from office by the state government as illegal.

The vice-chairmen and councilors stated this at a news briefing in Ilorin on Monday.

Hon Yusuf Salihu Mohammed, Vice-chairman of Ilorin West Local Government, who addressed the press on behalf of others, said the six-month suspension was unknown to the Nigerian Constitution and Kwara Local Government Law.

"It is clear that the suspension slammed on the local government councils, particularly, that of the legislative arms is not just unlawful but is, indeed, and arbitrary exercise of executive power.

"All the Councilors in Kwara State rejected the suspension but resolved to remain at home in order to give peace a chance in the state," he said.

According to him, all councilors staged a peaceful protest to the State House of Assembly and Government House to express their displeasure over the illegal suspension and pleaded for lifting of the suspension order.

Mohammed, however, lamented that all entreaties made to persuade the government to rescind the suspension order were "tactically blocked."

He declared that both the vice chairmen and councilors were not incriminated in the investigations conducted by the state government.

Mohammed said: "For the past six months, investigations being carried out by the government on the Local Government Councils only found the 16 Council Chairmen wanting.

"Nothing was found against the Honourable Speakers that were invited. "The Vice Chairmen and other Councilors were not invited for questioning, yet they were left on suspension. "We know, and we know that Government knows too, that the vice chairmen and councilors did not perpetrate any fraud in the councils.

"Why are we then preventing elected officers from doing their jobs and from collecting their entitlements? "

He said all the suspended vice chairmen and councilors were placed on half salaries during the first six months of their suspension, adding that with the extension of the suspension order, their salaries had been stopped.

Mohammed appealed to traditional rulers, religious leaders and eminent personalities to prevail on Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to stop the pains inflicted on the suspended elected local government officials. (NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Amos Sayo     Amusa Bello     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Alabere     Susan Modupe Oluwole     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Anilelerin     Towoju     Isau     Jaiz Bank     Quarry Royal Valley     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Adijat Adebiyi     Owo Arugbo     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Ojo Isekuse     Aliyu Muyideen     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     International Vocational Centre     Umar Adelodun     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     CCB     Egbejila     Kulende-UITH     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Saliu Mustapha     Toyin Sanusi     Ilorin South     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Rihanat Ajia     Sunday Fagbemi     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Oro Grammar School     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     CBT     Ibrahim Akaje     Saidu Isa     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Ojuekun Sarumi     Kehinde Boyede     JMK Construction Company Limited     Galland Marcias     Mohammed Lawal     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     NaAllah     Abegunde Goke     Kassim Babamale     ASUU     Hassan Taiye Salam     Dorcas Afeniforo     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Tunde Kazeem     Abubakar Imam     Ayinde Oki     Balogun-Ojomu     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Justina Oha     KWASAA     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Share-Tsaragi     Rafiu Olasile     Ibrahim Mashood     Aminu Ado Bayero     KWIRS     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Tsado Manman     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     CELF     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Abraysports FC     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Makama     3MTT     Lanre Jimoh     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Bola Magaji     Garment Factory     Kwara State Pension Board     Oke-Oyi     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Oyelere Oyinloye     Ayegbeni     AIT Ilorin     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Shettima     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Lawan     Oyin-Zubair     NIPOGA     Saka Adeyemo     Talaka Parapo     Ilorin Muslim Community     Osinbajo     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Akeem Lawal     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Tsado Manman     Yomi Ogunsola     Gbemisola Saraki     Toyin Sanusi     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Ibrahim Abikan     Simeon Sayomi     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Alapado     KWACOBPA     KWSUED     Rasheed Jimoh     Raimi Iyanda     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Jimoh Bashir     Charcoal     Babaloja-General     Muazam Nayaya     Balogun Ajikobi     Kwara Basketball Association     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Olatomiwa Williams     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Belgore     Amasa     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Code Of Conduct     Abdullahi Samari     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Atiku Abubakar     Doyin Awoyale     Obasanjo     Communication Network Support Services     Yaman     Odo-Owa     Ilorin Metro Park     Adisa Logun     SSA Youth     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Segun Olawoyin     Abubakar B.M     Yahaya Muhammad     Tunji Moronfoye     Sarakite