There is disquiet among both career staffers and political office holders of the Ogun State House of Assembly over the appointment of a new Clerk.
The crisis became noticeable after the House Clerk, Adedeji Adeyemo, retired from active service in early March and the assembly refused to announce a name to occupy the office since then. There are insinuations that the delay was to perfect a ground plan by the government to enthrone a non legislative staff member as the clerk of the house.
correspondent, showed that workers at the assembly are currently in fear that the government might force a non legislative staff over them as the clerk of the assembly. A staff member, who doesn’t want her name in print over the fear of getting reprimanded, hinted that some senior workers of the assembly have approached the Speaker over the matter but got an unpleasant response. “We went to him to complain about the delay in the appointment of a new clerk but he told us that it is whoever the governor chooses that he will accept and support as a clerk.
further gathered that the matter is currently tearing legislators apart, as some believe that the law of the House of Assembly Service Commission should be sustained, while others are of the opinion that civil servants who are outside the Assembly who are qualified by previously serving at the assembly can also become a clerk. Court verdict In 2020, Justice O.
reads partly, “A declaration that by the provision of Sections 4 and 93 of, the Constitution of Nigeria 1999, the Ogun State House of Assembly Service Commission Law 2018 is valid and subsisting and ought to be obeyed by the 1st- 5th defendants.
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