THE State Assembly, today, recommended the suspension of all the elected local government chairmen and their councillors in the state.
There are 23 local government areas in the state.
The lawmakers also recommended that the chairmen immediately hand over the affairs of their respective councils to their Directors of General Service and Administration.
Recall that the local government chairmen who were elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and were inaugurated in June 2022 for a two-year term had secured a judgement of the National Industrial Court in Makurdi guaranteeing their full tenure.
The judgement, which was delivered on June 15, 2023, followed a case instituted by the then-serving council chairmen. They got judgement in their favour to the effect that their tenure should run full course as provided under the law without let or hindrance from any quarters.
A few days after securing the judgement, the state governor, Rev. Father Hyacinth Alia, in a meeting with the council chairmen, directed them to furnish him with the income and expenditure of their respective council areas for three months, which had been hitherto forwarded to the house.
