Nasarawa Assembly suspends Deputy Minority Leader over alleged job scam

Deputy Minority Chief of Nasarawa state home of meeting, Hon Luka Iliya Zhekaba ( PDP- Obi 2) has been suspended over his alleged involvement within the pretend employment of 38 secondary faculty academics within the state.

His suspension was introduced by Speaker of the Home, Rt. Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, after the home deliberated on a report of the Home Committee on Schooling, on the recruitment of 366 academics and 38 pretend academics within the payroll of the state civil service throughout plenary in Lafia.

Abdullahi famous that the Home will not be towards the employment of the academics, however due course of should be adopted for fairness and equity and recruitment of academics needs to be a periodic train.

The Speaker mentioned;

“The committee beneficial that Hon Luka Iliya Zhekaba, Deputy Minority Chief of the Home needs to be suspended and an ad-hoc committee be set as much as examine his alleged involvement within the pretend employment of the academics.

“I hereby arrange a three-man ad- hoc committee to research his alleged involvement and report again to the Home inside two weeks.

“Hon Suleiman Yakubu Azara, member representing Awe South constituency is the Chairman of the committee; Hon Usman Labaran Shafa, member representing Toto/ Gadabuke constituency and Hon Samuel Tsebe, member representing Akwanga South as members of the committee.

“Mr Ibrahim Musa, the Deputy Clerk of the Home is the Secretary of the committee. I can’t query his actions or involvement for now till the committee concludes its findings,as you begin your investigation, I want you success.

“Mr Anthony Ladan, a Senior Accountant, Bureau for Salaries who admitted to together with the names of 38 academics into the payroll of the state authorities with no directive from the Commissioner of Finance”.

The Speaker additionally directed {that a} workers of the Ministry of Schooling, Mr Michael Adonye Johnny who’s alleged to be a syndicate, ought to proceed on obligatory retirement.

He added;

“Mr John Nuhu, a former workers of the Lecturers Service Fee ( TSC) and Ministry of Info, and a syndicate of pretend employment, is to be handed over to the suitable authority for prosecution.”