Ekiti Assembly Accusses Police Command Of Illegal Occupation Of Properties 

… Vows To Ensure The Police Authorities Vacates The Legislatures Official Residence 

By Emmanuel Adeoye

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The Ekiti State House of Assembly has accussed the Ekiti State Police Command of illegally occupying it’s properties with a vow that the leadership of the Ekiti Assembly will ensure that the Police Authorities in Ekiti State are made to vacate the legislatures official quarters built during the administration of the former Governor Adeniyi Adebayo in the State.

The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Adeoye Aribasoye, pledged the commitment to recover the property at the continuation of screening of the commissioner-nominees held at the Assembly Complex in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday.

Rt. Hon. Aribasoye also frowned at the attitude of some members of the public who are fond of sitting on the vacant seats of legislators in the Assembly promising to henceforth invoke the law to punish the culprits.

Before the Speaker’s remarks, one of the Commissioner nominees, who was a former Deputy Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly during the time of Governor Adeniyi Adebayo’s regime, in person of Rt. Hon. Oladapo Karounwi, frowned at the illegal takeover of the Legislative Quarters located along the NTA Road in Ado Ekiti by the Police, noting that the foundation laying ceremony for the project was laid during the tenure of the first elected Governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo whom he served as the Deputy Speaker, revealing that the properties were designated to be the official residence of the serving legislators in the State.

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Rt. Hon. Oladapo urged the Speaker and members of the Seventh Assembly to collaborate with Governor Biodun Oyebanji to ensure that the Legislative Quarters is recovered from the Police and used for the purpose it was intended for.

The former Deputy Speaker in his remarks also urged the Assembly to take a second look at the case of some staff members of the Assembly believed to have been unjustly disengaged urging the concerned authorities to reinstate them.

Rt. Hon. Oladapo had earlier raised the issue of alleged desecration of the hallowed chambers including illegal sitting on the legislators’ seats by unauthorized persons calling for more respect for the legislature from individuals visiting the Assembly

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Responding to the two issues raised by the nominee, the Speaker vowed that no member of the public would be allowed to desecrate the House urging individuals visiting the Assembly to always ensure decorum anytime they come to the Complex.

He said: “No member of the public will be allowed to desecrate the House of Assembly. I hereby give directive to the Sergeant-at-Arm that on no occasion should anybody who is not a member of the Seventh Assembly sit on any of the seats meant for the honourable members.

“Mr. Clerk and the Sergeant-at-Arm, I hope you can hear me. Mr. Clerk will brief me on the issue of Legislative Quarters and we are going to act appropriately after being fully briefed on the development.”

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After addressing the Assembly, the Speaker asked Rt. Hon. Oladapo to take his bow and leave the hallowed chamber. 

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