Zamfara Deputy Governor faces impeachment over alleged corruption

The Zamfara House of Assembly has commenced process to impeach the state’s deputy governor, Mahdi Aliyu.

The Director General, Press Affairs and Public Relations to the legislature, Malam Mustafa Jafaru-Kaura, disclosed this in a statement issued in Gusau, the state capital on Friday.

He said the move to impeach Aliyu followed a presentation of impeachment notice by the Deputy Speaker of the house, Mr Nasiru Magarya.

Jafaru-Kaura said, “As part of the provision of Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that empowers legislatures to commence impeachment move of a governor or his deputy on allegations of constitutional breaches, wrong doing or abuse of office.

“Therefore, today the Deputy Speaker and Chairman House Committee on Public Accounts presented a formal request notifying the speaker of the House move to impeach Barr. Mahdi Aliyu Muhammad Gusau as the Deputy Governor of the state”.

“The Deputy Speaker accused the Deputy Governor, Mahdi Aliyu-Gusau, for alleged constitutional breaches, abuse of office and financial misappropriation, which are all impeachable offences, and added that Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution empowered them to commence impeachment process against the Deputy Governor without further delay.”

Responding, the Speaker promised that the assembly would look into the allegations against the deputy governor and act appropriately according to the provisions of the constitution.