Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa has directed the Clerk, Olalekan Onafeko, to send a letter of invitation to the Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Kabiru Abdullah and its ministry to appear before its committee tomorrow.
The invitation was raised on the floor of the house during plenary yesterday by Olumuyiwa Jimoh, chairman, House Committee on Waterfront and Infrastructure, due to the evasiveness of the commissioner on its mid-year budget appraisal and other absenteeism before the house committee.
He noted that at each occasion the commissioner had been invited to the house for clarifications on the operations of the ministry as part of the committee’s oversight functions at which he had presented a no-show without adequate justifications.
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Members further corroborated the need to invite him to the house.
Bisi Yusuff said being privy to the matter, the issue of the commissioner’s absenteeism had long been overdue and the commissioner needed to be invited to the assembly to explain himself.
In line with this, Gbolahan Yishawu said as the primary duty of the house, he was in support of the invitation.
Adewale Temitope said the evasiveness was an aberration to the legislative arm of the government.