Thursday, 28th March 2024
To guardian.ng
Search

Akeredolu freezes councils’ accounts, stops appointees’ salaries

By Oluwaseun Akingboye, Akure
10 March 2017   |   5:13 am
The Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, has frozen accounts of the 18 local councils in the state through a circular signed by the state government.

Rotimi Akeredolu

The Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, has frozen accounts of the 18 local councils in the state through a circular signed by the state government.

The 18 chairmen and 203 councillors of the councils were members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who were elected into the offices after winning the April 2016 poll.

Besides, The Guardian gathered that salaries of the political appointees in the 18 councils had been stopped as their names have allegedly been removed from the payment voucher of the government.

The affected appointees include secretaries of the councils, personal assistants, special advisers, chiefs of staff, among others.Consequent upon this, a source, who pleaded anonymity, said that the chairmen would not be able to have access to the accounts of their respective councils again until further notice.

“The government has frozen the councils’ accounts since last week and all the council chairmen are aware already.“The implication of this is that the chairmen have been rendered powerless financially because they will not be able to take or spend any money from the council’s purse henceforth,” the source said.

Meanwhile, chairman of the Ondo State chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, Mr. Bayo Alarapon, confirmed the development, saying the association had not yet decided on the next action on the matter.

Alarapon, who is the chairman of the Akure South Local Council, said, “We have not really gone into the matter, but we are already into it and whatever we decide later, we will let the world know.”

In this article

2 Comments

  • Author’s gravatar

    Welcome sir, we voted u into power, and we expect such from a brilliant Mr Akeredolu, they actually fraudulently manipulated a way to that office after 7years in office of Mr mimiko, he thought it right only few months to end his tenure, and since the fact from the latest judgment say state government should not remove them chairman, our governor just got an answer to the equation. God bless u sir.

  • Author’s gravatar

    BUYCEMENT
    DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY FOR A PROMO OF #1300 PER BAG AND #300 TO DELIVER PER BAG,INDIVIDUALS CAN ORDER A MINIMUM OF 100BAGS,TRAILER LOAD OF 600BAGS,TRAILER LOAD OF 900BAGS AND ABOVE.CONTAC THE SALES MR OJEKERE ON O7O653/83208 OR ASSISTANT SALES MANAGER MRS MARY ON O81320/66217 FOR BOOKING AND DELIVERY

  • Author’s gravatar

    This is not unexpected, those concerned are not APC, new government requires changes. We pray that the new set-up will perform better