Former Deputy Speaker Sues Ogun Assembly 

4 years ago
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Impeached Deputy Speaker Sues Ogun Assembly, Demands N1.5B Damages
The former Deputy Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon Dare Kadiri, has sued the state’s lawmakers over his unlawful impeachment
The Speaker of the House of Assembly, Hon Olakunle Taiwo Oluomo was joined as the first respondent in the case,while the House of Assembly was the second respondent.
In  the suit nFHC/AB/FHR/35/2021 filed before Abeokuta Federal High Court,the former deputy Speaker sought N500million general damage against the respondent and an order of N1billion exemplary damages against the respondents.
Kadiri also applied for an order declaring his removal from office and the process that led to it a nullity, null, void and of no effect arguing that same was done in violation of fair hearing as stipulated in the constitution.
He also sought for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents and their agents from taking any further step or doing anything that will deny him his right as the Deputy Speaker of the house.
In his affidavit in support of the application, Kadiri maintained  that the Speaker was at the center of the dispute which formed part of the grounds for which he was impeached,adding  that the same Speaker presided over his impeachment.
He further argued that all the members of the committee set up to investigate him, except the Secretary, were the same accusers who had signed his notice of removal in a letter earlier sent to the clerk of the House before the committee was set up.
The reliefs read, “A declaration that the applicant’s right to fair hearing under section 36(1) of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as mended) was contravened by the Respondents in their process of removing him from office as the Deputy Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, having regard to the likelihood of bias in the decision making process.
“A declaration that the removal of applicant from his office as the Deputy Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, including the process and proceedings leading to the removal and all actions and steps taken pursuant to same, are all a nullity, null and void and of no effect, having been done in violation of the applicant’s right to fair hearing in section 36(1) of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as mended.
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