The
councilor, in an interview with BBC Hausa service on Monday and monitored by
DAILY NIGERIAN in Abuja, said the chairman is owing workers four months’
salary, with complaints coming from all quarters over the way he solitarily
performs the affairs of the local government.
She said as
a result of the myriads of these problems, which also saw elected councilors
confined to within spectators position, a council meeting was summoned where
she voiced these grievances to the chairman.
“It was
during a council meeting convened over the different problems afflicting the
constituents in the local government. We were discussing on these issues and we
also asked him whether we offended him because of the way he has not been
involving us in the affairs of the local government.
“In this
local government, we have reached 4 months without salary. People are complaining
of how they have been disengaged from their works. Some of them complain of cut
in their salaries. All these were tabled and the chairman was urged to act,”
she said.
Then it was
Mrs Birnin Tudu’s turnto speak, as the meeting allows everyone to talk. “I told
him that being close to our constituents we hear a lot of complaints first
hand. And as the chairman, he cannot get to hear some of these complaints and
misdemeanors, but we hear everything and we are not happy.
“I told him
we are elected councilors but we have been relegated in running the affairs of
the local government. Some directors have stopped coming to work. I urged him
to please do something and pay workers their salaries.”
Soon after
rounding off her submissions, the female council said “as the secretary was
talking, he (the chairman) stepped out of his seat and came towards me. He was
even asked by the secretary of where he is going, but he replied that he was
going to sit.
“I was not
expecting anything when he severely slapped me twice. Some councilors later
prevailed upon him. He even boasted that a councilor was never slapped in the
history of the local government, but he had done so, moreso on an elected
female councilor.
“He then
went out to the charged crowd, who equally were making comments on me and
making threats because of my stance. He calmed them down with the news of what
he did to me.”
Asked on her
response, she said he decided to follow the chain of command that is inherent
in politics by reporting it to their leaders.
She said she
expects the leaders and the APC to do justice to her, as she has been “abused
and embarrassed,” by the chairman.
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