Alleged fraud: Ekiti assembly issues arrest warrant on Fayemi

THE Ekiti State House of Assembly has issued a warrant of arrest on the immediate past governor of the state, Dr Kayode Fayemi.

The assembly at its sitting on Tuesday resolved that the Inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner of Police and other security agents should ensure the appearance of the former governor before the assembly “in accordance with Section 129 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Majority of the members at the sitting had argued in favour of the issuing of the warrant following their claims that he had refused to honour  three invitations they said they had sent to him on issues of alleged “misappropriation of funds, contract-splitting and diversion of local government funds.”

They claimed that the invitations were to give him “an opportunity to come a defend himself against the various allegations,” and explained that “we are hereby compelled to exercise the powers given to the house of assembly by the constitution by issuing a warrant of his arrest.”