Court Reinstates Impeached Kogi Speaker

                     

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja yesterday ordered the reinstatement of Momoh Jimoh Lawal as the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly.
Just five members of the assembly impeached him earlier this year.

Lawal and other affected principal member of the Assembly challenged their impeachment on Feb 16 insisting that due process of law was not followed.
Judge Dimgba ordered those occupying their seat to “Immediately vacate the different offices they now purportedly occupy by reason of the purported impeachment and removal of the Speaker and other Principal Officers. and directed the Speaker (Lawal) and the other Principal Officers (2nd to 9th plaintiffs) to immediately resume their duties in their different offices as they were never impeached and/or removed.
Justice Dimgba also ordered the DSS, Civil Defence Corps and KSHA “to immediately restore the security details of the 1st plaintiff (Lawal) and other Principal Officers purportedly impeached or removed by the illegal acts