Kwara LGA’s Suspended

The Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has suspended the 16 Local Government Council executives and legislative committees in line with the earlier recommendation of the state house of assembly.

Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq

A government statement in Ilorin, the state capital said the suspension will be for a period of six months pending the outcome of investigations into allegations of misappropriation of public funds by the state house of assembly.

The government’s decision came hours after the house of assembly recommended the suspension of the local council executive and legislative committees.

The house had, in the resolution earlier in the day, urged the governor "to immediately suspend all the 16 local government executive and legislative committees in the state pending the outcome of its investigation into the allegations of misappropriation of public funds levelled against them so as not to jeopardise the process of investigation".

Section 29 of the Kwara State local government law cap. k33, 2006 empowers the governor to suspend the chief executives of the local councils for six months.

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