- Edoror now a floor member
By Ehi Ekhator
The Edo State House of Assembly (EDHA) has lifted the suspension placed on its speaker, Victor Edoror and his deputy.
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This was contained in an announcement made by the Hon. Elizabeth Ativie, who was sworn in place of Edoror while on suspension.
Edoror was impeached by 16 out of 24 members of the assembly on May 3 for financial recklessness, dictatorial tendencies and high-handedness.
The governor had called peace meeting but the members insisted that Edoror remained impeached pending when investigations into his alleged financial misappropriation is finalized.
During plenary on Monday, Ativie said “In the spirit of reconciliation, we hereby lift the suspension placed on the former speaker, Victor Edoror.
“ He is by the announcement welcome back to the house,’’ she said.
According to information gathered by NAIJA CENTER NEWS, Edoror sat with the other members of the house today as a floor member.
It had been earlier reported that the lawmakers invited auditors to audit the financial records. While addressing newsmen, Mrs. Ativie said “The former speaker was very corrupt. The funniest thing is that he changed the overhead of the House to suit his own ways thereby leaving his colleagues not to be taking care of properly. You journalists can also observe that lawmakers in the Edo Assembly were now living like paupers . I don’t want to go into details of his reckless spendings.”
“One year into office, members cannot feed properly. The most annoying one is that each time members complain, that’s the POC, who are supposed to take care of members, they failed as the leader of the House because the resources were been diverted and not used for what it’s meant for.
“The most painful one is that, he will tell us that it is the Chief Executive (Oshiomhole) that was not releasing the fund and that ignited us to be fighting the executive. This almost led to almost three months of war between the legislators and the executive.”
“One day the governor called a meeting of party elders and the House where he told us how he has attended to twelve out of the fourteen items sent to him for consideration which was not denied by the former speaker.”
“The moment we establish that there was cheating In the whole process, the members were angered and the more we tried to take care of this, the more revelations we got. Yesterday here, we discovered that certain monies were paid into his private account and I have told the Clerk of the House to write to the auditor general to send us auditors to audit our finances from June last year till May this year.”
The suspension was to last for three months, a decision that led to the invasion of the chamber by thugs loyal to the embattled speaker.
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