Adamawa Lawmakers Give 24 Hours Ultimatum To Council Chairmen To Submit Statement Of Accounts, IGR, Others

Members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly on Monday, gave 24 hours to the Chairmen of the 21 Local Government Councils to submit statement of accounts and documents on internally generated revenues.

Other documents to be submitted to the Central Committee on Assessment of projects include; residual balance since inception to date, documents on the projects executed and any document pertaining the finances of their LGCs within 24 hours.

NEWS PLATFORM learnt that lack of submission of the documents to the adhoc committees as required for upward submission to the Central Committee had affected the presentation of the reports on the assessment of the projects before the assembly on Monday.

The adhoc committees had on Thursday and Friday last week visited all the 21 LGAs where they assessed the developmental projects executed by the chairmen, and directed the affected chairmen to submit the documents for verification and submission.

The committees were last week directed by the Speaker of the assembly, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, to submit their reports to the Central Committee for consideration on Monday this week.

But during Monday resumed plenary session, the Chairman, ADHA Committee on Local Government Affairs and member representing Nasarawo Binyeri constituency, Hon. Umar Nashon Gubi, told his Honourable colleagues that “the reports are not ready yet”.

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However, he pleaded with his colleagues to exercise patience as the reports will be available within 24 hours, and called on the chairmen of the LGC to submit their documents to the Central Committee with immediate effect.

Hon. Nashon, commended his colleagues for taking their time to tour all the LGAs, assuring that the reports will be ready in due course for necessary action.

Baring his mind, Hon. Abdullahi Umar Yapak (Verre constituency) told the assembly that the committees cannot be able to submit their reports without the accompanying documents.

Hon. Yapak, said that the chairmen were ordered to submit the documents on or before Friday last week, but to their to their dismay, the LGC Chairmen could not abide by the order.