Members of Adamawa State House of Assembly have levelled 26 allegations of “gross misconduct” against Governor Murtala Nyako and his deputy, Bala Ngilari.
The speaker of the Assembly, Ahmadu Fintiri, had on Wednesday directed the Clerk of the House to serve the governor and his deputy with the impeachment notice.
Twenty allegations were levelled against Nyako and six against Bala.
Some of the allegations against Nyako included diversion of N2.3 billion workers’ salary for September and October 2011, illegal deductions and diversion of N142 million emoluments of workers in May 2014.
The governor was also alleged to have squandered N4.8 billion and N7.1 billion in 2012 and 2013 respectively through the office of the Secretary to the State Government against budgetary approvals.
The legislators also accused the deputy governor of diverting N50 million released to him by the Ministry of Finance to acquire licence for the exploration of solid minerals in 2008.
They also accused Ngilari of misleading Nyako to invest in mineral exploration that turned out to be a white elephant project.
They claimed that the deputy governor was involved in extra-budgetary expenditure to the tune of N397 million as overhead cost in 2013.
The governor and his deputy were in Abuja on official assignment when the legislators served them the impeachment notice.
Meanwhile, the situation in Yola, the state capital, is calm, with people seen in groups discussing the development.
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