Olakunke Oluomo, Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, announced the suspension of the former Deputy, Dare Kadiri of Ijebu North II State Constituency, and Solomon Osho of Remo North.
The suspension followed the adoption of a resolution, during a plenary presided over by Speaker Olakunle Oluomo at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
This is “in line with the provisions of Sections 14 and 15 of the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act, 2017.”
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According to the Speaker, “Order 6, Rule 19 (2) says that whereof a matter of privilege arises, it shall be taken into consideration immediately; in the note of that, I want to say that I received a resolution by appropriate number of members of this house raising issue of Privileges and it read thus”, Resolution 131/ OG/ 2022 – suspension of some honourable members for the breach of the provision of the Legislative Houses (Power and Privileges) Act, 2017.
“Having found to have severally and contentiously breached the Rights and Privileges of the Ogun State House of Assembly and its Leadership, through violation of the provisions of Section 17 of Legislative Houses (Power and Privileges) Act, 2017.
“The following Honourable member, Hon. Oluwadamilare Kadiri (Ijebu North II State Constituency) and Solomon Osho (Remo North Constituency) are hereby suspended from the House and its activities forthwith until further notice in line with the provisions of Sections 14 and 15 of the Legislative Houses (Powers and Priviledges) Act, 2017.”
Oluomo, while announcing the suspension, said the resolution did not require any vote since the appropriate number of people had signed.
He, however, did not name those who signed the resolution, nor did he reveal how many they were.
”Since this has been signed by the appropriate number of people, it requires no vote or anything, so they stand suspended,” Oluomo concluded.
This comes days after Oluomo accused the sacked Deputy Speaker of being the mastermind behind his ordeal with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Daily Report Nigeria recalls that the EFCC, on September 6, 2022, arraigned Oluomo at a Federal High Court in Lagos on 11-count charge bordering on N2.475billion money laundering and forgery.
Justice Daniel Osiagor, who presided over the case later granted bail to the Speaker alongside the Clerk of the House, Taiwo Adeyemo, and the Assembly’s Director of Finance, Samuel Oladayo, who were arraigned as co-defendants on the same charge.
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