By: Valentine Adese (JP),
Although the 17 Local Government Councils (LGCs) Chairmen and their Councilors who were suspended from office by the Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang (Esq) are still challenging the legality of their suspension from office at the Plateau State High Court, their misery is becoming compounded with recent steps been adopted by the Plateau State Government. REALITY can authoritatively report.
First, the fact that they were removed allegedly against an Order of the Plateau State High Court which restrained the State Government, the Governor, and the Attorney-General of the state from taking such a step has remained an emotional frustration.
Secondly, the freezing of their individual accounts secretly using Orders obtained by the State Government through Motion Exparte has further destabilized the suspended Chairmen and their Councilors.
REALITY also gathered that in some cases, the accounts operated by the Chairmen and their wives and other family members were also affected, thereby putting the entire family into financial difficulties and unhappiness.
In most cases, REALITY gathered that the Chairmen who have fees to pay to their Counsels, seem to have also run out of the needed steam and ability to maintain the number of supporters who besiege the Court to encourage them. This has also seriously dwindled the numbers of supporters that constantly turn up for them, especially with the present high cost of fare in the state and the country at large.
Just a few days ago, the Plateau State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) cried out that the State Government is squeezing the political and legal space by extending the tenure of the Transition Committees (TIC) appointed by the State Governor in their place.
The APC had alleged in a press statement made available to Media Houses in Jos that the state Governor had made the extension through the State House of Assembly to oversee the affairs of the 17 Local Government Councils in the state.
According to the APC in a Press Statement tagged: “THE SPEAKER PLATEAU STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IN COLLUSION WITH THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF PLATEAU STATE DISOBEY ANOTHER COURT ORDER”, signed by its STRATEGIC MONITORING TEAM, the extension is another “disobedience of Court Orders, Court Judgments and Subpoenas by the Plateau State-led PDP Government”.
The APC used the Press Statement to call on the Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly and the Executive Governor of Plateau State to “Give peace a chance on the Plateau and to seek justice for whatsoever they desire through LAWFUL means not by the display of impunity, crass abuse of law and intimidation”.
TO BE CONTINUED….
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