We’ll Probe Obasa’s Fraud Once He Resumes –Lagos Assembly

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday, said it is expecting impeached former Speaker Mudashiru Obasa to resume before it determines the next line of action, including a possible probe.

OSUN DEFENDER reports that Obasa was impeached last week by the house while out of the country for alleged gross misconduct.

He was replaced by the former deputy speaker of the House, Mojisola Meranda.

But Obasa, who spoke publicly on the matter last Saturday, dismissed the corruption allegation raised by the lawmakers.

He also said his removal was unprocedural, insisting that he remained the authentic Speaker.

Speaking with Punch at the Assembly complex in Alausa, Ikeja, the spokesperson for the House, Olukayode Ogundipe, disclosed that actions will be taken once Obasa resumed.

Ogundipe said, “On the other allegations against him, when he is on the ground physically, those ones will be taken care of.

There are other things we’ve also been hearing about different amounts of money being spent by him. We felt we didn’t know how they got the record of those, but the ones we have, when he’s seated with us, actions will be taken.”

Asked if the Assembly would submit a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe the ex-Speaker, the Assembly spokesperson, representing Oshodi Constituency I, said, “That will be expatiated when he’s on the ground, probably a committee will be set up to look into it or probably it will also be looked at by the leadership of the House.

“Those formalities as per procedures will be followed to the letter. So I’m sure you should expect the House to react to that when the time comes.”

The lawmakers had last week removed Obasa, citing, among other things, corruption allegations.

The House spokesman also maintained that Obasa was lawfully removed.

Ogundipe said, “I want to say that the former Speaker, Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa is still one of us and will continue to remain one of us and the process of his removal was constitutional.

“As I said, the constitution is very clear about the process of bringing him in in case we want to change the guard, that is the same procedure we also used to remove him. The process was duly followed, and the members, we know what we saw, and we intended to change guard and that’s exactly what we did.”