Impeachment panel ends sitting
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By the Editor
The seven-man impeachment investigative panel set up to investigate claims that the Edo State Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu, committed impeachable offence, has ended its sitting on Friday afternoon.
Rising from its sitting, the panel Chairman, retired Justice S. A. Omonuwa said: “Panel’s proceedings were adjourned to today for the last time for the respondent to present his defence.
“The respondent is still not before the panel. The panel is therefore closing its sitting to retire to consider its report as provided for by the constitution.”
It would be recalled that Professor Oladoyin Awoyale(SAN), Counsel to Comrade Shaibu had opted to stay out of the panel’s activities on the submission that a Abuja Federal High Court had asked all parties in the case before it to come show cause. His position is that the panel ought to heed the call and stop further proceedings.
Justice Omonuwa said the entire process from start to finish would fall into the constitution as stipulated by the 1999 constitution.
The next information from their work to the public would be from the Edo State House of Assembly relying on section 188 (7) of the 1999 Constitution which stipulates that the panel appointed under this section shall within three months of it appointment report it’s findings to the assembly.
