The Adamawa
State House of Assembly has today 18th June, commenced impeachment
proceedings against the state governor, Murtala Nyako, and his deputy, Bala
Ngilari.
The Assembly
on Wednesday directed its clerk to serve Messrs Nyako and Ngilari impeachment
notices.
Details of
Wednesday’s proceedings at the Assembly are still sketchy but the decision to
commence impeachment procedure against Mr. Nyako and his deputy climaxes months
of acrimonious relationship between the executive and the legislature in the
North-East state.
The
political landscape in the state tensed up last Wednesday when the Assembly
ordered the arrest of four commissioners for their failure to appear before the
lawmakers to failing to appear before the House to answer questions on the
state’s finances.
At plenary
that Thursday, the Deputy Speaker, Kwamoti Laori (PDP-Numan), who presided,
directed the state Commissioner of Police to arrest commissioners who failed to
show up and bring them before the house on Monday by 10 am.
The affected
commissioners were that of agriculture, Lucy Ishaku; health, Lilian Stephen;
commerce, Ahmed Gorko; and land and survey, Abdulrahman Shuaibu.
The
Assembly, which acknowledged receipt of a letter from the Secretary to the
State Government, Kobis Thimnu, over his inability to honour the Thursday
invitation, asked him to appear unfailingly on Monday.
The
commissioner for Finance, Ibrahim Vokna, his counterpart for Works, Umaru
Atiku, and the state Accountant General, Nasir Mohammed, had earlier appeared
before the house.
The Assembly
had on May 27 gave Mr. Nyako and his government an ultimatum of three days to
pay back an alleged illegal deduction made from workers’ salaries and
allowances of May 2014 in the state.
The
development fuelled speculation in the state that the Assembly was bent on
sacking the governor.
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