Court Restrains Nasarawa Assembly Over Renaming Of Public Utilities A high court sitting in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, on Tuesday granted an interim injunction restraining the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, NSHA, from carrying out its directive on changing the names and paint colours of public utilities in the state. In an affidavit of urgency in support of motion exparte filed by the counsel to the plaintiffs, Alhaji Musa Ilu and TA’Al Campaign Organisation, A. M. Mohammed Esq, states that if carried out the directive by the NSHA “will cause serious injury and irreparable damage to the structures and will affect our desired goal of achieving political power in the state and ensuring good governance through TAAL Campaign Organisation if not restraint”. It would be recalled that on the 14th August, 2013, the NSHA directed the Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board and the ministry of works to erase the colour of the TAALnursery, primary and junior secondary school, Bukan Sidi, Lafia, and all the newly built classrooms across the state which were constructed by the Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura led administration. Similarly, it also directed the removal of the inscription “Keke TAAL” on the tricycles procured by government and distributed to youths in the state on hire-purchase basis as a means of alleviating poverty. In arriving at its decision the NSHA noted that TAAL Nig. Ltd is a privately registered company of Governor Almakura and naming public utilities after a private company belonging to the governor aroused suspicion on issues bothering on whether governor Almakura has the ulterior motive of converting such public utilities to private use at the end of his administration. It also argued that the company is publicising itself and advertising its name on public utilities without paying for it as prescribed by law.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:20:48 +0000
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