Kwara chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) has justified the inclusion of vice chairmen and councilors in the suspension of local government councils by Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq.
ALGON expressed its support for the action in a statement by its Chairman and Secretary, Mr Joshua Omokanye and Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar-Bata.
A copy of the statement was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Ilorin.
It said that both the Executive and legislative arms of the local government councils were guilty of financial impropriety.
NAN reports that the association was reacting to the news conference addressed by the Forum of Vice Chairmen and Councilors on Monday, where they described as illegal their inclusion in the suspension of local government councils.
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Chairman of the forum, Hon. Yusuf Mohammed, had said that vice chairmen and councilors were never incriminated in the investigations conducted by the state government.
Mohammed had sought their inauguration as the chairmen of the various councils in line with the provision of the constitution.
But ALGON in its statement noted that the vice chairmen could not exonerate themselves from the allegation of financial misappropriation levelled against the councils because they were the supervisory councillors in their respective local government councils and represented the councils at the statutory monthly Local Government Allocation meeting.
The statement also said that council chairmen could not spend any money not appropriated by the legislative arm of the council headed by the Speaker.
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