How Severance Allowance, Return Tickets Fuelled Impeachment of Ekiti Speaker, Deputy

Some members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly saturday revealed that the assembly’s immediate past Speaker, Hon. Kola Oluwawole and the Deputy, Sina Animasaun were impeached due to the failure to pay some lawmakers their furniture and severance allowances.

Apart from issues around furniture and severance allowances, the members also revealed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was able to poach 11 lawmakers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because they were denied return tickets in the just concluded primary election in the state.

Different lawmakers spoke with THISDAY in confidence yesterday about the impeachment of the state’s speaker and his deputy, noting that the action could have been avoided if all lawmakers were paid their furniture and severance allowance.

With the impeachment of Oluwawole and Animasaun, the lawmakers loyal to the APC had elected Hon. Adeniran Alagbada from Ise-Orun constituency as the new speaker and former Deputy Speaker, Hon. Segun Adewumi was reinstated.

THISDAY, October 14, 2018

 

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