The Zamfara State Residence of Assembly has alleged that some lawmakers collected the sum of 10, 000 US {{dollars}} to frustrate the deliberate impeachment of the state Deputy Governor, Mahadi Aliyu Gusau.
This was disclosed all through a press conference on the state Residence of Assembly by the chairman, committee on information, Shamsudeen Hassan Boko.
He talked about the Residence has commenced a radical investigation on the matter.
The chairman talked about two of the lawmakers accused of amassing the bribe have made confessional statements that the opposition event gave them the money.
“The opposition despatched certainly one of many lawmakers to supply me the just a few of 10, 000 {{dollars}} which I rejected bluntly” he added.
“No courtroom or any order can stop investigating the Deputy Governor for alleged financial mismanagement and negligence of his constitutional obligation as a Deputy Governor”
“As a result of the courtroom is an institution so is the lawmaking our our bodies and no institution can stop us from investigating the Deputy Governor”
Primarily based on him, the state authorities had constituted a seven-man judicial panel to investigate the Deputy Governor, saying that 18 out of the 24 lawmakers have agreed to go on with the impeachment course of.
“The panel would invite all of us along with the state Deputy Governor for investigations sooner than the committee submits its critiques”, he talked about.
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