Financial Infractions: Lagos Assembly Stops Salaries Of Govt Appointees

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Lagos State House of Assembly has ordered the withdrawal of appointment letters of government appointees, who took up the job without due process.

The House also ordered the halting of their salaries and remunerations, pending their appearance before it.

Three top government officials were summoned over the issue. They are Head of Service Hakeem Muri-Okunola, state Accountant-General Abiodun Muritala and Commissioner for Establishment. Ajibola Ponnle.

Speaker Mudashiru Obasa, presided over plenary, agreed with the lawmakers that appointments of that nature without recourse to the House amounted to infractions.