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Police seal Ondo House of Assembly

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Jaafar Jaafar is a graduate of Mass Communication from Bayero University, Kano. He was a reporter at Daily Trust, an assistant editor at Premium Times and now the editor-in-chief of Daily Nigerian.
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By Tayo Ikujuni

The police on Monday sealed the troubled Ondo State House of Assembly over leadership crisis.

Malachi Coker, the acting speaker of the House told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Akure that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, ordered indefinite closure.

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The Assembly, had on Friday, Jan. 27, impeached the Speaker, Jumoke Akindele, and other principal officers over allegation of N15 million fraud.

The money was allegedly found on the Assembly’s Paymaster, Mr. Makanjuola Adesina, who told the lawmakers that it was withdrawn on the instruction of the Speaker for a project which he failed to disclose.

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Coker told NAN that the Assembly had adjourned sitting indefinitely following the police action.

“For now, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has directed that the Assembly should be locked.

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“On Friday, Feb, 3, the police brought a warrant that the Assembly should be locked indefinitely and that was after the House had adjourned its sitting at a plenary held on Thursday, Feb. 2.

“We hope the police will not be bias in their actions by allowing the impeached Speaker’s faction to have access into the Assembly,’’ he said.

On the impeachment of the Speaker and other principal officers, Coker said that 20 out of the 26 members of the Assembly signed the impeachment notice.

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“For clarification, it takes 18 members to sign the impeachment notice, while 10 members can sit in the Assembly to pronounce it and this time around 20 members signed the impeachment notice.

“About seven members backed out after they had signed the impeachment notice following pressure from the power that be.

“We all plan the impeachment together, but as human beings, some claimed they were not in the Assembly when the impeachment was to be carried out,’’ the acting speaker said.

He appealed to members of the Assembly to come together and work for the interest of the state and not for individual’s interest or pecuniary gains. (NAN)

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