Ebonyi council boss, Nwali, councillors clash over alleged unpaid salaries, cultism
The council chairman of Ezza South Local Authorities Space of Ebonyi Utter, Mrs Uphemia Nwali, and 6 councillors from the eleven wards of the council clashed following alleged unpaid wages and various remunerations to councillors.
DAILY POST stories that the squabble started when about seven councillors handed a vote of confidence on the female council chairman, Mrs. Nwali, throughout her 2024 funds presentation at the council headquarters in Onueke.
It changed into as soon as gathered that six out of the eleven councillors adversarial and protested the vote of confidence on the female council chairman, Nwali.
Investigation revealed that the clashes resulted in a excessive security breach at the council headquarters in Onueke, vandalization of many vehicles, stabbing of some contributors with machetes, and destruction of various precious properties rate hundreds of thousands of naira.
For trot one of many councillors, Mr Ukpabi Henry representing Amagu/Nsokkara ward, who spoke to newsmen in Abakaliki rapidly after the conflict, acknowledged: “The council chairman just will not be doing what she is presupposed to be doing at the council. The councillors don’t know what is taking place within the council. The councillors don’t hold any entitlement within the council.
“She did not pay us our legislative votes for 9 months now. The council headquarters is overgrown with weeds. Cultism and robbery are benefit within the council. The council has been having fun with relative peace, but it’s no extra now,” he acknowledged.
He, on the opposite hand, called on the suppose governor, Francis Nwifuru, to name the council chairman, Nwali, to pronounce and mandate her to pay them their entitlements to avert disrepute.
In a swift response, Chairman Mrs. Uphemia Nwali denied owing any entitlement or salaries to any councillors or workers of the council. She accused Ukpabi of being subsidized by the Senator representing Ebonyi Central senatorial zone, Sen. Kenneth Eze, to destabilize her administration within the council.
Nwali acknowledged: “I changed into as soon as presenting the 2024 funds, and all the pieces changed into as soon as accrued. The councillors handed a vote of confidence on my administration due to the the peace and infrastructural services now we hold supplied for the folks within the council, but Ukpabi adversarial it and rushed to take the mess, but various councillors overpowered him and picked up it salvage pleasure from him.”
“He started making noise and inflicting effort internal the hall. He went outside and picked up a machete from his car and started snatching vehicles that belong to councillors and various properties that belong to the council,” she acknowledged.
