Alleged N248.5m Scam: Nasarawa Assembly To Appeal Acquittal Of SSG

By Ella Makondo

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly is to appeal the quashing of its report which indicted the erstwhile Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Aliyu Ahmed Tijani over an alleged N248.5 million scam, Speaker Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi has said.

He spoke following the decision of a High Court sitting in Akwanga, Nasarawa State on Friday  that quashed the report of the House that indicted the erstwhile SSG.

Speaker Abdullahi made this known while addressing journalists in Lafia at the weekend.

The speaker said that the House has confidence in the Court of Appeal and would get the right judgement accordingly while calling on the people of the state to remain calm and be law abiding over the issue.

“For us as members of the House, we have monitored the events in Akwanga right from the beginning to yesterday and how can the judge say that we did not give the former SSG fair hearing on the matter.

“Some of you the journalists were present when we invited the former SSG to the plenary over the issue, he promised that he will take all responsibility for his actions.

”We were surprised by the judgement that we did not give the former SSG fair hearing on the matter.

”I have directed our counsel to study the judgement and we will appeal the judgement, and I assure you we will get good judgment at the higher level, this is just a court of first instance, so we will go to the higher ladder” he said.

“It beats one’s imagination to notice that the former SSG even had prior notice of what the outcome of the court will look like as he went with his supporters to celebrate the judgment before the court’s decision,” he said.

It would be recalled that on June 2, the state House of Assembly ad-hoc committee which investigated  the release of N1 billion for the renovation/fencing of public secondary schools in the state in 2018, indicted the former SSG.

The assembly therefore asked Ahmed-Tijani to refund over N248.5 million as unaccounted funds to the state government.

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