Fourteen members of the Kogi State House of Assembly loyal to the embattled
Speaker, Honourable Momoh Jomoh Lawal, on Friday, signed an impeachment notice
against the state deputy governor, Mr Simeon Achuba.
Achuba is to respond within 14 days in line with Section 188 of 1999 Constitution as
amended.
On Friday, the 14 members, during a plenary presided over by Speaker Lawal in
Abuja, resolved to serve the impeachment notice on the deputy governor for
allegedly causing chaos among members of the assembly and the executive arm of
government, only a week after being confirmed and sworn in.
The notice, entitled “Impeachable Offences Committed By His Excellency, the Deputy
Governor of Kogi State, Hon Simeon Achuba,” was signed by all the members that
were present at the plenary in Abuja.
His sins are said to include “undue” interference in the affairs of the state House of
Assembly thereby causing friction between the executive and the legislative arms of
government in the state.
It was also alleged in the notice that he was instigating members of the assembly to
“forcefully and unlawfully” change the leadership of the House without recourse to
the rules of the House.
According to the notice, “five members of the House to sit despite the proclamation
by the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly adjourning to a later date.”
They insisted that the deputy governor was performing legislative function, that is
swearing in of the “purported Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly” in his
office, contrary to the extant provisions of the House Rules and in “flagrant abuse”
of the tenets of democracy and separation of powers as enshrined in the 1999
Constitution.
He was accused of generally causing disaffection by inciting certain sections of the
state against each other, therefore, causing disharmony and security threat in the
state.
Source : Nigerian Tribune
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