The Enugu State House of Assembly has directed the commissioner of police in the state to arrest the Accountant-General, Mr Paschal Okolie, for failing to appear before it for the third time.
Leader of the Assembly, Mr Sunday Ude-Okoye, moved the motion for issuance of a warrant of arrest on the accountant-general during plenary. Ude-Okoye said the arrest became necessary following his failure to appear before them.
"We are all from Enugu State and every time he pretends to be sick, but we keep getting information that he attends to his duties. This is the third invitation to him and there is explanation for his absence. And we are aware that he is in town. Maybe, like one of us said yesterday that we have no powers. He feels that we have no powers, so he will continue to fry us like akara in the frying pan.So because of his continuous failure and neglect of this honourable House, l therefore evoke the powers bestowed on us to order the commissioner of police to issue a warrant of arrest on the accountant-general,'' he said..
Ude-Okoye, therefore, moved that the accountant-general should be brought before the Assembly on April 21.
The motion, which was seconded by Chief John Anichukwu (PDP-Nkanu East), was put to vote and was unanimously passed by the lawmakers.
Okolie was invited by the lawmakers to explain why he decided to withhold the Assembly's monthly subvention. (NAN)
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