JOS SOUTH CONCERNED APC YOUTHS FOR LALONG, CONDEMNS ATTEMPTS TO INVOLVE TECHNOCRATS IN POLITICS BY DISGRUNTLED DISSOLVED COUNCILLORS.

Comrade Sylvanus Dagyang, the Coordinator of the Jos South LGA Concerned All Progressives Congress (APC) Youths for Lalong has condemned the attempts to involve the Jos South LGC technocrats in politics by the disgruntled dissolved supervisory councillors of the Council.

The APC Youth Leader made the condemnation while speaking to the NewsGate Magazine in Jos recently over the call by the dissolved Supervisory Councillors of Jos South Local Government Council by the Plateau State House of Assembly in July, 2020 for the removal of the Transition Committee Chairman, Hon. Dachung Yohanna Choji.

Comrade Dagyang while speaking on the issue of not being carried along in the governance of the council when they were there,he debunked the insinuation and posited that all the dissolved Supervisory Councillors were members of the Finance and General Purpose Committee(F&GPC) including the Council Chairman, Council Secretary, the Director of Personnel Management (DPM), the Director of Finance and Supplies (DFS) and the Zonal Inspector of the LGC from the Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. The F&GPC is the body that is responsible for approving all expenditures of the council that are above the Council Chairman’s approval limit of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N250,000.00).This is a legal and a constitutional provision.

The Concerned APC Youths Coordinator also asked pertinent questions and queried why the sacked Councillors could not send any complaints for the removal of the council Chairman when they were holding sway in the Council but are now calling for his sack ? Is it a case of “bad belle”? Is it because the House of Assembly has removed them that they are hell bent on the removal of the chairman to join them as boasted by one of the removed councillors?Why are they desperate to involve the DPM and DFS in their political shananighan? Are civil servants not supposed to be a apolitical? Is it not “pull him down syndrome” to involve the innocent DPM and the DFS in a matter that does not concern them? Has the financial memorandum guiding the financial transactions of the Local Government Councils not allowed the DPM, DFS and Chairman to prepare the payment schedule legally?These are questions begging for answers from the dissolved Supervisory Councillors.

On the issue of loyalty or lack of it, Comrade Dagyang posited that loyalty to any government in power is the minimum requirement for DFS, DPM and all civil servants of Jos South Local Government,who are to be seen to be working together for a harmonious, rapid socio-economic development of the Council.

He described the comments by the sacked Supervisory Councillors as uncalled for, malicious and aimed at causing division and mistrust in the APC as he wondered why technocrats were dragged into political matters in the guise to cause divisions along ethnic lines. He went on”For record purposes it was not only supervisory councillors of Jos South LGC that were sacked by the Plateau State House of Assembly, but why is Jos South the only LGC causing confusion and unnecessarily overheating the system in a COVID-19 Pandemic? Why are their counterparts in Riyom, Jos North and Barkin Ladi that were also dissolved not behaving the way that of Jos South are behaving?He said
“Why didn’t the supervisory Councillors call for the sack of the Management Committee Chairman when they were in office but are only suggesting such after the House of Assembly dissolved them,he queried.
He concluded by calling on the dissolved Councillors to honour the position of the Plateau State House of Assembly and stop parading themselves as supervisory councillors of Jos South Local Government Council as that translates to impersonation which is a criminal offence and may lead to prosecution.

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