LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT REFUNDS 145 FORMER SUBSCRIBERS OF EGAN HOUSING ESTATE
admin The Lagos State House of Assembly has suspended Chairman of Alimosho Local Government Area, Jelili Sulaimon, indefinitely. The suspension is with immediate effect.
Sitting at plenary, the lawmakers directed that the Vice Chairman, Akinpelu Johnson, take over running of the council affairs.
The House further instructed the council management, including the manager and treasurer, to recognise the vice chairman’ authority and support him.
Sulaimon was suspended following a unanimous vote by the lawmakers over alleged non-compliance, defiance and unyielding attitude to the legislative House.
Chairman of the House Committee on Local Government Administration and Chieftaincy Affairs, Sanni Okanlawon, who moved the motion for Sulaimon’s suspension, recalled that in April 2024, pandemonium broke out in the Iyana-Ipaja axis of Alimosho Local Government leading to the death of one Micheal Ajayi.
Okanlawon, whose committee investigated the crisis, discovered that Sulaimon masterminded the chaos.
According to Okanlawon, all stakeholders involved in the issue were invited, but Sulaimon had continued to show defiance to the House. He highlighted the chairman’s failure to adhere to the Assembly’s directives and his mismanagement of public funds. He, therefore, called for Sulaimon’s immediate suspension in line with relevant sections of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
“He should be suspended immediately while the vice chairman, Akin Johnson, takes over with immediate effect,” he prayed.
Majority Leader of the House, Noheem Adams, while supporting the call for Sulaimon’s suspension, added that the action would make other local government chairmen sit well.
“The Alimosho council chairman does not follow procurement processes or the budget. There has been a lot of misconducts from him and I support that the he be suspended indefinitely,” he said.
Chairman of the House Committee on Public Accounts for Local Government, Nureni Akinsanya, referred to the report submitted by the State Auditor-General concerning Sulaimon’s activities.
According to him, the report underscored the council chairman’s consistent non-compliance with financial regulations, with significant irregularities in his records. These discrepancies, he noted, were enough justification for Sulaimon’s suspension.
Sa’ad Olumoh, while echoing his concerns, prayed the House to invite Kolade Alabi and Rasak Ajala, chairmen of Bariga LCDA and Odi Olowo LCDA,, as heads of the Conference 57, to explain the widespread disregard by council chairmen for governance protocols.
The Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, who presided over the sitting, directed the Clerk of the House, Olalekan Onafeko, to communicate the Assembly’s resolution to all relevant authorities
