Group writes Adamawa Speaker Aminu Abbas, seeks immediate disbandment of illegal assembly committee for local governments assessment.

The Aminu Abba led Adamawa state House of Assembly has passed a resolution penultimate week seeking to engage in a self-style and illegal assessment mission to the 21 local government councils to suggest to the governor whether to extend the tenure of the current chairmen.

 

In a letter to Mr Aminu Abbas this week, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) warned that the Adamawa state House of assembly is sliding into the red light district of corruption and vice.

 

The group also alerted that there is no way people accused of corruption will engage the chairmen on their performances as the millions of naira collected by the members for constituency development funds is unaccounted for.

 

In the letter titled “Stop the illegal ADSHA commitee” and signed by HEDA Chairman Muhammad Jada, the group challenges the constitutional powers of the ADSHA to engage in oversight mission to the 21 council chairmen said such committee is billed to extort the chairmen.

 

The anti-corruption group regrets that people who are supposed to be lawmakers have automatically turned to breakers by appropriating executive functions of the governor to monitor happenings under his watch.

 

HEDA said councillors in the 21 local governments of Adamawa state have powers to check the chairmen, not the assembly.

 

“This unconstitutional mission to the council chairmen is for extortion not assessments as assessment of the chairmen is purely an executive affair not legislative”.