Similarly, the Osun Speaker said the state’s total debt profile was being investigated by a 10-man committee of the Assembly.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye, says governors, their deputies and some top public officials are empowered by law to go with their official vehicles at the expiration of their tenure.
Owoeye stated this during plenary on Wednesday in reaction to Governor Ademola Adeleke’s call for ex-governor Gboyega Oyetola, his former deputy, and some other ex-officials to return their official vehicles.
The Speaker said, according to Osun State Public Office Holders (payment of pension and severance packages) Bill 2018, signed into law in 2019, the former governor is empowered to go away with his official vehicles.
He, however, invited the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Teslim Igbalaye, and the state Chief of Staff, Kasim Akinleye, to come for a holistic discussion on the matter.
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“I want to call on the SSG and Chief of Staff to let us discuss this matter holistically.
“Apart from the fact that we have a Public Office Holders (payment of pension and severance packages) Law, that was passed in 2019, I will not say anything further until I see the SSG and Chief of Staff.
“Both of them are not summoned to appear before the Assembly, but to let us come together for discussion.
“There are so many things we can settle without denting the image of anybody,” the Osun Speaker said.
Similarly, the speaker said the issue of the total debt profile of Osun State was being investigated by a 10-man committee of the Assembly, empowered by Sections 128 and 129 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999).
He said the sections of the constitution allows the Assembly to investigate further, the real debt profile of the state, which the Assembly initiated on December 21, 2022.
