A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the freezing of the Katsina State Local Government Joint Account as a result of the failure of the state government to abide by the directive of an earlier court ruling, ordering payment of the entitlements of the dissolved local government chairmen and councillors in the state in 2015.
The ruling presided over by Justice Emeka Nwite, in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/122/2022, ordered that “the state’s local government joint account should remain frozen till March 21, 2022.”
This was disclosed by the Katsina Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Salisu Yusuf Majigiri, while addressing the dissolved council leaders at the party’s secretariat in Katsina.on Friday.
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Recall that on assumption of office as Katsina Governor in 2015, Aminu Masari sacked all the 34 local government chairmen and their 361 councillors over alleged financial misappropriation perpetrated by the now dissolved council leaders.
