Another Ekiti Lawmaker Suspended For 101 Legislative Days
The lawmaker representing Ekiti-East Constituency 1, Hon Fajana Ojo-Ade, was Wednesday suspended by the Ekiti State of House Assembly for a period of 101 legislative days over alleged misconduct and financial mismanagement.
His suspension came ten months after a lawmaker, Chief Gbenga Aribisogan, who is representing Ikole Constituency 1 was suspended for 180 legislative days for allegedly holding meeting with some members of the opposition.
According to a release signed on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, by the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Hon. (Dr) Samuel Omotoso, the lawmaker’s suspension was without pay, in the first instance, “except he shows signs of genuine remorse.”
Omotoso said the assembly took the decision after the disciplinary committee set up by the Rt Hon Speaker, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, to investigate Hon Ojo-Ade submitted it’s report at plenary.
He said Ojo-Ade appeared twice at the sitting of the disciplinary committee in the last two weeks, where he defended himself on allegations of gross misconduct, financial impropriety, failed attempt at removing the Speaker, violence and physical attack on honourable members, as well as bringing the name of the House to serious disregard and disrepute.
The committee, in its report, said that “whereas Hon Fajana Ojo-Ade, a member of the fifth Assembly representing Ekiti-East 1, having been found guilty of gross misconduct against the Ekiti State House of Assembly, hereby committed an offence by breaching the extant rules and standing orders of this honourable House.”
At its plenary on Wednesday, the House unanimously approved the recommendations of the disciplinary committee ,”That Hon Fajana Ojo-Ade is, hereby, suspended from the Ekiti State House of Assembly and all legislative duties for a period of 101 legislative days without pay, in the first instance, except there is a sign of genuine remorse.”