Fatima Atiku Abubakar,
Commissioner of Health, Adamawa State, will has been invited to appear before the
Adamawa State House of Assembly to explain non-payment of six-month salaries to
some health workers in the state.
The Health Commissioner, who is
the biological daughter of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the
presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is to appear at
plenary alongside some principal officers of her ministry and the state
Accountant General, Augustina Wandamiya.
Presiding at plenary on Tuesday,
Speaker of the House, Kabiru Mijinyawa, had said: "The invitation of the
officers was over non-payment of six-month salaries of some recruited health
workers.
"The House has also
constituted an ad hoc committee, under the chairmanship of the Majority Leader,
Hassan Barguma (APC-Hong), to probe the alleged utilisation of N2 billion
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) agricultural loan.”
The CBN was said to have granted
the loan to the state through the Adamawa Agricultural Development and
Investment Ltd, (AADIL).
Chairman of AADIL Board, John
Garba, and the Managing Director of AADIL, Ibrahim Dasin, who appeared before
the plenary, were referred to the ad hoc committee.
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