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Albanian president impeached for violating Constitution

June 10, 2021 No Comments

Albanian President Ilir Meta has been impeached by the country’s parliament for violating the constitution.

Meta was accused of inciting violence and going against provisions of the country’s constitution.

Parliamentary investigation revealed that he violated 16 articles of the constitution and triggered violence

Report from the investigation detailed that the behaviour and approach of the president didn’t align with his constitutional role.

The report also cited his biased approach against the ruling Socialists during the April 25 parliamentary electoral campaign, recommending his removal on the grounds of grave violation of the country’s constitution

“President of the Republic’s acts, behaviour and approach … run counter to his constitutional role and position,” the report said.

The lawmakers accused Meta, of inciting instability and violence, taking sides with political opposition ahead of the nation’s election.

Edi Rama the country’s Prime Minister who spoke before the impeachment said Mr Meta “has betrayed the mission of the president of … Albania.”

Meta was impeached after the 104 lawmakers voted for his impeachment against 7 other members who voted for him to remain as president with three others maintaining a neutral stand.

The final approval will come from Albania’s Constitutional Court within three months.

Socialist lawmakers had in April asked the investigative committee to impeach Mr Meta for failing to guaranty national unity.

Since assuming the office of president in 2017 with the support of the ruling Socialists, Meta has opposed their agenda, blocking the nominations of ministers and vetoing legislation.

However, the ousted President faulted the investigation and impeachment attempt, with claims that the outgoing parliament lacks the constitutional right to conduct such investigation as they are currently in a post-election transition period.

The parliament elected in April is not formally seated until September.

The Socialist Party had at the April 25 election swooped a landslide of 74 of parliament’s 140 seats winning their third four-year term.

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Ogun Deputy Speaker impeached days after arrest, detention

March 4, 2021 No Comments

The embattled Deputy Speaker of Ogun Assembly, Dare Kadiri, representing Ijebu North State Constituency 2, has been impeached for alleged “gross misconduct.” He was impeached on Thursday morning during plenary.

This comes after about 22 lawmakers signed a petition for his removal last week, and was arrested and detained on Monday, at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ogun State Police Command, following reports that he coordinated thugs who carried out series of attacks on the homes of some politicians, at the Ijebu North Local Government Area.

The Command had said the arrest and detention had no political undertone, claiming that Kadiri was trying to make the world see it from that angle. Also, the Command said Secretary to the State Government, Tokunbo Talabi, had no hand in his arrest.

Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the Deputy Speaker was arrested and detained for alleged criminal invasion of, and attacks on, some politicians homes in Ijebu, including that of the SSG’s father.

He said: “On the 20th of February 2021, the command received a complaint from one Mrs. Olabode Adegbesan of No. 6 Ayegbami street Awa ijebu who reported at Awa ijebu police station that, while she was at home at about 12noon, some people led by the Deputy speaker invaded their home, throwing stone into the house and calling out her husband Hon. Kunle Adegbesan to come out to be dealt with.

In the process, the hoodlums vandalized the window glasses of the house before they left with threat to come back with more violence. Not quite an hour after the first report, one comrade Akeem Temitope Akilo also came to report that, he was at the house of the SSG’s father when the deputy speaker led some people to the house at about 12:55 pm, vandalized the window glasses and removed the APC flag hoisted therein and took it away.”

Also, he said at about 1:30pm of the same day, one Otunba Adetohun Oduwole reported that Kadiri led some thugs to her house and destroyed the front door of the house as well as window glasses before they left.

While investigation into all the reports was going on, one Hon. Yinusa Adekunle reported that the register been used for the APC registration exercise has been forcefully seized by one Hon. Abagun Yinusa.

“This prompted the DPO Awa ijebu to visit the house of the said Hon.Abagun for the purpose of recovering the seized register. On getting there, the deputy speaker arrived the scene with about twenty men in two buses and descended heavily on the complainant, Hon Yinusa Adekunle, beat him mercilessly and almost killed him,” he added.

Ripples Nigeria had reported the moves to sack him, after an ad-hoc Committee was set up by the Speaker, Kunle Oluomo, to investigate the allegations against Kadiri.

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Edo Assembly Speaker impeached

October 12, 2020 No Comments

The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Frank Okiye, was on Monday morning impeached.

Okiye’s impeachment notice was signed by nine out of the 10-member Assembly.

Though details of what led to the impeachment are still sketches, Tribune Online gathered that Okiye would have been removed last week but for the last-minute intervention by Governor Godwin Obaseki.

The Edo Assembly, as it is presently constituted, is made up seven Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, embers and three All Progressive Congress, APC, members.

14 other members-elect stayed off the inauguration of the House on June 17, 2019, when Governor Obaseki issued the proclamation for the inauguration of the legislative arm.

While the 14 others had on August 6, 2020, inaugurated themselves in a private residence at Ugbor GRA, of the state capital, Benin, where they elected Victor Edoror as the speaker.

Okiye, it would be recalled, had week decamped to the PDP alongside six other members, while the remaining three members, who participated in the June 2019 inauguration remain in the APC.