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Oluomo: Disquiet In Ogun As EFCC Sets To Arrest Assembly Members

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After arresting the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly (OGHA), Rt. Hon Olakunle Oluomo, at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), may arrest other assembly members, especially principal officers, over alleged graft against the speaker.
It was gathered that Oluomo, a three-term lawmaker representing Ifo 1 State Constituency, was arrested over allegations bordering on corruption, forgery and financial impropriety.
However, it was gathered that the EFCC’s arrest of the Speaker, on Thursday, morning may have been informed by his alleged refusal to honour previous invitations extended to him by the anti-graft agency for questioning over some “unholy” deals carried out by the Ogun Assembly under Oluomo’s speakership.
However, it was gathered that there was an unusual calmness among other lawmakers.
Also, EFCC sources have hinted at possible arrest of other members of the state house of Assembly over their role in the alleged fraud.
A source at the Lagos office of the anti-graft agency told BUSINESSINSIDERNG yesterday that documents and petitions before the agency had shown that some principal officers will be invited to shed more light on the allegations against the speaker, the source who spoke to our Correspondent before the speaker was transfered to the agency’s Headquarters in Abuja said.
It was, however, gathered that the OGHA suspended its sitting following the arrest of its Speaker.
The deputy speaker, Rt. Hon. Akeem Balogun (Ogun Waterside State Constituency), who is statutorily saddled with the responsibility of conducting the businesses of the Assembly in the absence of the Speaker, also could not convene the sitting of the House.
It was gathered that the suspension of proceedings at the Assembly may not be unconnected with the arrest of the Speaker which caught all members and staff of the Assembly unaware, particularly when the lawmakers normally sit every Tuesdays and Thursdays.
 It was further gathered that the speaker’s refusal to honour the EFCC’s invitations was premised on the existing litigation instituted by the Assembly earlier in January this year at the Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta against the anti-graft agency.
It would be recalled that the Ogun Assembly in suit No: FHC/AB/CS/7/2022, dated January 14, 2022 is seeking an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the EFCC from taking further step, “including but not limited to inviting, interrogating, imposing obligations and demanding or requiring attendance of the plaintiffs/applicants in connection with the criminal allegation made against the speaker and some others by an aggrieved member of the Assembly.”
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