---House adjourned indefinitely to block move Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila is fighting the battle of his li
—House adjourned indefinitely to block move
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila is fighting the battle of his life to escape the impeachment gale hovering around him.
Despite doling out $10,000 each to members of the House of Representatives of the concluding 9th Assembly, fear of the unknown has prevented the Speaker from convening plenary sessions.
Before releasing the $10,000 gratification, not less than one hundred and sixty members were alleged to have signed his impeachment notice.
In furtherance to his continued battle for survival, the Speaker Gbajabiamila on sensing the mood of the members when the House convened Wednesday morning, 17th May 2023 abruptly adjourned indefinitely.
His Deputy, Hon. Ahmed Idris Wase was evening raising his hand to speak when he hurriedly hit the gavel and adjourned the Plenary, a development which further infuriated members.
Reliable sources equally hinted that the members were moving against Gbajabiamila over sundry charges of corruption and the smuggling of an undebated clause on election of principal officers into the House Rule.
The Speaker with the aid of the Clerk of the House of Representatives was alleged to have altered the House Rule on election of principal officers from secret ballot to open ballot without carrying the members along.
The leadership of the 9th Assembly is further¹ being accused of diverting a whoping sum of N4 billion naira meant for the training of the legislative aides for the past four years.
The National Assembly budget every year provides for the quarterly training of aides, the sum of N250 million which amounts to a billion naira annually.
Sources however revealed that for the past four years now, no single training has been conducted for the aides so members are asking questions about the money which are usually budgeted for the capacity buildinf of their support staff .
Questions are also being asked about the ongoing projects which were being executed to the detriment of the uncompleted ones started by the previous leadership of the National Assembly.
Apart from the leaderships being accused of overinvoicing the contracts, the members are also questioning the rationale behind embarking on new projects when the old ones inherited from the previous leaderships were yet to be completed.
The leaderships of the 8th Assembly, began the construction of quarters for the principal officers of the legislature which are yet to be delivered.
The projects causing the agitations are, the Mosque, the library block, the National Assembly Service Commission, (NASCOM) building, the gates and gate houses and the barricading of the stays with transparent glasses.
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