According to Premium Times, the 12 of 24 members of the Assembly on April 29, Wednesday, listed six impeachable offences against the governor.
They include:
1)
That Governor Sa’idu Dakingari committed grave violation of the
provision of Section 5(1)(a) of the Kebbi State Budget Monitoring and
Price Intelligence Bureau Law,2006 in that the Chairman of the Bureau is
to be a retired Civil Servant, but the Governor appointed a serving
Permanent Secretary/Solicitor General of the State Ministry of justice,
Barr Aminu Usman as Chairman of the Bureau.
2)
That the governor committed gross misconduct by accessing and obtaining
a loan facility to the tune of N2 billion from Micro Small and Medium
Enterprises Support Fund set up by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
allegedly without obtaining the necessary confirmation of 2/3 majority
of the Assembly, which was opposed by nine of 24 members.
3)
That the Governors continues work with unelected Local Government
Councils in the State whose tenure in office already expired on or about
the 18th September,2014, two years after Oath of office as provided by
Section 18(1) of Kebbi State Local Government Law, 2008 and thereby
committed a gross misconduct.
4)
That between the period of January 2015 – April 2015, the governor
allegedly misappropriated the sum of N1,800,862,672.00 from the State
Government funds in the name of General Election 2015 even when there is
no provision for that expenditure in the Appropriation Law 2015.
5)
The Governor,alleged misappropriated the sum of N965,000, 000.00 in the
name of the official visits of Mr President, Vice President and First
Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria between November 2014 to March,
2015 and that Mr Vice President and First Lady did not make any official
visit to Kebbi State within the said period thereby committed gross
misconduct.
6)
That the governor issued the renovation and furnishing of the
Presidential Lodge and other government lodges at the cost of N558, 560,
416.00 to unknown contractor in September 2011 and thereafter within
two months period that was between October 2014 – November, 2014, the
governor alleged wrongly inflated the cost of renovation and furnishing
to the tune of N1, 347, 373, 906.54k.That the contract sum was increased
by the sum of N788, 813, 490.54k thereby committed misconduct.
Source: Naij news
