The failure of the Kogi state House of Assembly to resolve its leadership crisis which has plagued it for 3 months now has led to the closure of the Assembly complex by security agents.
5 out of the 20 members of the Kogi state House of Assembly had earlier gone ahead to impeach the speaker causing the entire ruckus.
According to witnesses who visited the Assembly complex on Tuesday, March 29, the main entrance of the complex was barricaded by heavily armed security operatives who blocked members of the legislative arm to access the chambers and conduct the slated budget defence.
Aliyu Akuh, who is the deputy to the under pressure speaker of the house, Momoh-Jimoh Lawal revealed that the crisis persisted because 5 members of the House jettisoned the directive to return to the status quo of the House.
Akuh stated that it was out of place for 5 out of the 20 members of the assembly to remove the speaker even though 15 other lawmakers passed a vote of confidence on the speaker and as such an action that must be contested in a sane democratic environment.
“What happened with five members seeking to impeach a speaker in a house of 20 members is an aberration, unheard of and more so that some members’ names and signatures were forged and included as being part of them.”
“We had to go to the higher authority which is the National Assembly vested with the constitutional powers to intervene in such situations. The House of Representatives ordered the seal-off and it was concurred by the Senate.”
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