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The Kogi State Government has frozen all state and local government accounts with immediate effect.
The account freezing was made known via a statement signed by the Commissioner for Finance, Asiwaju Asiru Idris saying, no imprest or any form of payment should be made to anyone from government accounts henceforth.
According to the statement, “All Standing Orders and Investment Instructions are hereby Cancelled forthwith.
“All Kogi State and Local Government Accounts are hereby frozen with effect from today, Thursday 22nd November 2003.”
Recall that Governor Yahaya Bello last Saturday questioned the loyalty of some members of his cabinet, including local government chairmen.
According to him, despite being mobilised to provide transportation and other logistics for the electorates during the election, “you have all failed to deliver while the mobilization funds ended in private pockets.”
The governor went ahead to issue a questionnaire to all 21 local government chairmen, which they were asked to submit last Tuesday.