Benue Assembly sets up committee to investigate garnishee orders

The Benue State House of Assembly has ordered an probe into alleged indiscriminate garnishee orders against the accounts of the authorities government.

The solution was reached during Thursday’s plenary, presided implicit by the Speaker, Rt Hon Alfred Emberga.

The Assembly’s determination followed abstracted motions seeking greater scrutiny of fiscal activities involving the authorities authorities and section authorities councils, peculiarly concerns surrounding garnishee proceedings and nationalist procurement.

Moving the question connected garnishee orders, the Majority Leader, Hon Peter Bemdoo Ipusu, drew the attraction of the House to what helium described arsenic the increasing incidence of garnishee orders and writs of mandamus against the authorities government.

The lawmakers expressed interest that the continued issuance of specified orders could restrict the government’s entree to funds needed to instrumentality approved programmes and conscionable its obligations to the people.

The House noted that authorities operations were financed done statutory allocations, Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) revenues, Value Added Tax (VAT), internally generated revenue, grants and different morganatic sources of nationalist funds.

It further observed that ...