The Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon.Suraju Ishola Adekunbi has directed Chairmen of Local Government Councils and Local Council Development Areas suspended in the previous week by a resolution to forward their financial report including list of performance in the last three years to it within one week.
Speaker Adekunbi gave the directive during a meeting with the Council and LCDA Chairmen and Councillors at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan Abeokuta, while explaining that the financial report included financial spending which covers income and expenditures, revenue and details of projects executed for immediate submission to the 9th Assembly.
Adekunbi represented by his Deputy, Olakunle Oluomo, while fielding questions from the Chairmen allayed their fear on the need to ensure fair hearing on petitions against some of the Chairmen, explaining that the incoming legislature was empowered by the newly adopted South West standing order for State Houses of Assembly to continue the business of the 8th Legislature upon its inauguration.
According to him, the interactive meeting was meant to give fair hearing to the suspended chairmen and the councillors to defend allegations contained in about 113 petitions submitted to the Assembly.
Meanwhile, it would be recalled that the State Assembly barely a week ago at a plenary presided over by Speaker Suraju Adekunbi passed a resolution suspending all political functionaries in all Local Government Councils and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the State and consequently, directed them to hand over to the Head of Local Government Administration in their respective councils and LCDAs.
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