FLASH: Ogun Speaker, Oluomo Impeached
The speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo has been impeached over gross misconduct.
Hon Oludaisi Elemide was subsequently named as the new speaker.
He was impeached after eighteen of the 26 members of the State Assembly voted at the plenary session on Tuesday.
He was reportedly impeached for alleged embezzlement of funds, highhandedness and related offences.
The impeached speaker was arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on September 6, 2022, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over an alleged N2.475bn money laundering.
Oluomo was arraigned alongside three others: Oladapo Samuel, Adeyemo Taiwo, and Adeyanju Nimota Amoke (now at large) on 11 counts of conspiracy, forgery, stealing, and money laundering preferred against them by the EFCC.
The prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN) told the court that the defendants committed the alleged offences between 2019 and 2022.
He said that the incident took place in Ogun State.
According to Oyedepo, the sum of N2.475bn was stolen by the suspects from the treasury of the Ogun State House of Assembly
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