THE suspended Member representing Ughelli North 1 Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Matthew Omonade will finally know his fate on Thursday this week when the House reconvenes.
Recall that following his suspension, a 5-man Ad-hoc Committee was set up to investigate the alleged gross misconduct, with the Majority Leader, Emeka Nwaobi as the Chairman.
Other members include the Chief Whip, Perkins Umukoro, the Deputy Chief Whip, Fred Martins, Minority Whip, Alapala Ebitonmo and the member representing Ika North East, Marylyn Okowa-Daramola, while the Deputy Clerk (Legislative), Mr D. S. Olorogun is to serve as Secretary of the Committee.
Available information reaching The Townhall indicated that the Committee might be turning in their Report for the House to ratify depending on the outcome either to pardon him or slam further sanctions against him.
The Townhouse which has been monitoring the development, as a follow up, had reported that the embattled Lawmaker, a Lawyer by profession, has succumbed to pressure by back-tracking having tendered an apology under duress.
The source said, “As we speak he has apologised since nobody was standing by him as he foresaw that continuing in the fight might consume him since the Executive is involved”, one of the credible sources told The Townhall.
The bone of contention centred on the issue of a Bill on Generation and Distribution of Electricity to be domesticated in Delta State .
It was learnt that Omonade actually came to the House well prepared and so he carried out extensive research on the Bill and after working on it he passed a copy to Mr Speaker who subsequently forwarded same to the governor.
And when he kept on asking the Speaker access to table it, he was denied only for the Bill to return to the House as an Executive Bill without crediting him regards the intellectual property, amounting to alleged plagiarism.
His suspension came as a punishment for daring to ‘harass’ Mr. Speaker by pestering him to allow him present the Bill which originally was his brain child.