The Kwara State House of Assembly today, vowed to issue arrest warrant against 4 of the suspended 16 Local Government Chairmen who failed to appear before its investigative committee.
This disclosure was made by Hon. Saheed Popoola representing Essay/Shawo/Igbo-idun State constituency while speaking on Harmony 103.5FM Yoruba programme, titled IFOKANBALE.
He said “The house have the contitutional power to issue warrant of arrest against anybody without immunity. We invited them and they failed to appear and that is contempt of the House, we have several options and we’ll definitely take definitive action very soon, which might include warrant of arrest or even sack,”
Recall that the Assembly had announced the suspension of all the 16 LG Chairmen pending the conclusion of investigation into allegations of financial misappropriation leveled against them, while 12 of the affected appeared before the Hon. AbdulGafar Ayinla Ayilara led investigative committee, the Chairmen of Ilorin West, Ilorin East, Irepodun and Ekiti local government areas refused to appear relying on the Court case it instituted.