The Enugu State House of Assembly has directed the Commissioner of Police in the state to arrest the Accountant-General, Mr. Paschal Okolie, for disrespecting the House and failing to appear before the House three times.
Okolie an ally of outgoing Gov. Chime was invited by the lawmakers to explain why he decided to withhold the Assembly’s monthly subvention, but he ignored the invitation three times.
Leader of the House, Sunday Ude-Okoye, a representative of Awgu North Constituency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), moved the motion for the issuance of a warrant of arrest on the Accountant-General during plenary in Enugu on Wednesday.
Ude-Okoye said the arrest became imperative because of Okolie’s consistent failure to appear before the Assembly.
“We are all from Enugu State and every time he pretends to be sick, but we keep getting information that he attends to his duty,” Ude-Okoye said.
“This is the third invitation to him and there is no sign or reason why he is not here. As of today, he is in Enugu State.
“Maybe as one of us said yesterday that we have no powers, he feels that we have no powers indeed and he will continue to fry us like `akara’ in the frying pan.
“So because of his continuous failure and neglect of this honourable House, l therefore evoke the powers bestowed on us to order the Commissioner of Police to issue a warrant of arrest on the accountant-general.”
Ude-Okoye, therefore, moved that the accountant-general should be brought before the assembly on 21st April.
The motion was seconded by Hon. John Anichukwu and unanimously passed by the lawmakers.
