Comrade Daniel Onjeh, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Benue South Senatorial District within the 2023 basic election, has condemned the invitation prolonged to some aides of the Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, by the Home of Representatives’ Committee on Public Petitions.
reporter stories that the Home had summoned the Particular Adviser to Governor Alia on Native Authorities and Chieftaincy Affairs, Dennis Akura, and others for allegedly embezzling N20 billion belonging to the 23 native authorities councils of the state.
The state authorities had since debunked the report, urging most people to ignore the ‘faux information’ by International Integrity Campaign Community, GICN.
Reacting to the invitation, Onjeh, in an announcement he personally signed on Tuesday, described the transfer by members of the Home as a “mere extension of the lawmaker’s mischievous scheme to discredit Governor Alia”.
He famous that the Benue NASS caucus’s actions should be resisted in any respect prices, saying Denis Akura had “clarified the problems the faceless group raised”.
The APC chieftain harassed that if the lawmakers weren’t glad with the clarification, “they need to await the EFCC and ICPC to conclude their investigations, following the petition they submitted to the anti-corruption our bodies”.
Onjeh additionally tackled Senator Abah Moro over his name for the withholding of Benue State native authorities funds.
He harassed that “the State Home of Meeting is the one physique charged with the duty of regulating the actions of the native governments within the state”.
The APC chieftain opined that till Part 7 of the 1999 Structure is amended to grant full monetary and administrative autonomy to the native governments, something completed on the contrary by the Nationwide Meeting shall be mere window dressing.
“At this level, granting LGAs full autonomy is what the lawmakers ought to dissipate their power on, if they’re honest. However as it’s now, the whole lot regarding LGAs continues to be underneath the State Homes of Meeting’s purview”, he added.
reporter stories {that a} management disaster is at the moment rocking the state chapter of the ruling social gathering, fueling a number of allegations.