It was approved after a presentation by the House Standing Committee on Appropriation, Budget Monitoring, and Economic Planning.
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They said it was an attack on the Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo, and the entirety of the Kogi people.
The member representing Okene Constituency, Suleiman Assemblyman Abdulrazaq, is the sponsor of the bill.
This forms part of the resolutions during the House plenary on Tuesday.
They commissioner-nominees were nominated by the new Governor, Usman Ododo.
The state’s Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, disclosed this in a statement, saying that experts were currently working to unravel the cause.
The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Mathew Kolawole, gave the directive on Wednesday during a public hearing on the activities of Dangote Groups in the state.
This is contained in a statement signed by Femi Olugbemi, Chief Press Secretary to the speaker, Assemblyman Matthew Kolawole.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suspension followed the adoption of a letter from the Executive read on the floor of the House on Tuesday in Lokoja alleging abuse of power by the chairman.
Shigaba said the screening had become a very serious matter as civil servants from across the state were complaining of hardships
Lawal and nine other Principal members of the House had challenged their purported removal from office by the Hon. Umar Imam-led group of the House on February 16, 2016
The recurrent expenditure summary showed that salaries and allowances are expected to gulp N42.45 billion, with overhead cost standing at N15.83 billion
The governor had issued a proclamation for the holding of the first session of the 6th Assembly, thus paving the way for the Presiding Officer and Clerk of the House, Simon Momoh, to administer the Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office on the legislators
The Speaker, Alhaji Momoh-Jimoh Lawal, in his charge to the successful ones, urged them to key into the government’s Transformation Agenda for the overall development of the state
The budget was passed with slight increase in the Appropriation Bill presented in December 2013 by the state Governor, Captain Idris Wada
Daudu said this on Wednesday during budget defence by officials of the state Ministry of Finance at the assembly complex in Lokoja
Bello, who has the support of 12 other members of the Assembly out of 25, said what has transpired so far in the House amounts to illegality, which had the backing of the state executive led by Governor Idris Wada