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The Ekiti State House of Assembly has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to arrest the Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi, for allegedly misappropriating N40 billion of state funds when he held sway as governor.
The chamber also directed the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu and other security agencies, including the International Police (Interpol), to immediately arrest Fayemi.
At a press conference yesterday in Ado Ekiti, the speaker, Kola Oluwawole as well as chairman, House Committee on Information, Samuel Omotoso and Leader, Tunji Akinyele, said the warrant was to afford the minister the opportunity to clarify some of the allegations of profligacy brought against him.
Omotoso alleged that the former governor had continually spurned the assembly’s summons in breach of Section 1(1) of the 1999 Constitution which empowered the House to summon serving or former officers of the state.
The chamber also directed the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu and other security agencies, including the International Police (Interpol), to immediately arrest Fayemi.
At a press conference yesterday in Ado Ekiti, the speaker, Kola Oluwawole as well as chairman, House Committee on Information, Samuel Omotoso and Leader, Tunji Akinyele, said the warrant was to afford the minister the opportunity to clarify some of the allegations of profligacy brought against him.
Omotoso alleged that the former governor had continually spurned the assembly’s summons in breach of Section 1(1) of the 1999 Constitution which empowered the House to summon serving or former officers of the state.
