Ogun Assembly Remains Shut Days After Speaker, Oluomo’s Arrest For Alleged Corruption; No Sitting As Mace Is With Embattled Speaker

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on September 1, 2022 arrested Oluomo over alleged N2.475 billion money laundering.

The Ogun State House of Assembly has remained shut over the arrest of the Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on September 1, 2022 arrested Oluomo over alleged N2.475 billion money laundering.

Days after, the anti-graft agency filed 11 counts against the Speaker; Clerk of the House, Adedeji Adeyemo, and the Accountant, Oludayo Samuel.

On Tuesday, Justice Daniel Osiagor ordered that they should be remanded for one week in EFCC’s custody, adding that if they failed to meet up with their N300 million bail bond, they would be remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Service.

Sources told SaharaReporters that plenary has been stalled in the Assembly as the Deputy Speaker, Akeem Balogun, could not convene the sitting of the house.

Meanwhile, based on a law earlier passed by lawmakers in the state, the Speaker was saddled with the responsibility of keeping the Mace of the House.

Therefore, the mace, which is the staff of authority of the state’s legislative arm, has been in the possession of the embattled Speaker despite his challenges, therefore preventing any sitting or plenary session from taking place at the Assembly Complex.

“There is a law that says the Speaker must always be with the mace; he is the one to keep the mace. In the past, the mace was stolen different times, so a law was made that the Speaker must keep it so he has been going about with it,” a source told Eaglesforesight.