The Edo State Home of Assembly Service Commission has commenced an investigation into the alleged age falsification by the Clerk of the Home, Alhaji Yahya Audu Omogbai.
DAILY POST stories that the probe follows a petition submitted by involved employees of the Edo State Home of Assembly.
The chairman of the fee, Hon. Ezehi M.D. Igbas, in an invite to the embattled clerk, acknowledged {that a} three-man advert hoc committee has been constituted to hold out the investigation.
The invitation letter, dated October 13, 2025, scheduled October 14, 2025, for the clerk to seem earlier than the committee for an interview session.
The clerk was directed to seem on the convention corridor of the fee at 2 pm at No. 20, Oghosa Crescent, off Ihama Street, GRA, Benin Metropolis.
The involved employees, of their petition dated October 10, 2025, accused the clerk of falsifying his age to elongate his tenure in workplace.
They alleged that the clerk has surpassed the necessary retirement age of 60 years.
Additionally they claimed that, based mostly on his preliminary appointment dated again to 1993, he would have exceeded the statutory 30 years in service.
The petitioners additional accused the embattled clerk of obstructing the investigation by allegedly withholding official file data associated to the allegations.
They, nonetheless, urged the fee to research the claims completely and take applicable motion to uphold integrity and adherence to rules inside the Edo State Home of Assembly.
In the meantime, employees of the Edo State Assembly have protested towards the involvement of operatives of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Commission, EFCC, of their verification train.
The employees, in massive numbers, condemned the event, stating that the involvement of the anti-graft company contravened the earlier bodily verification workout routines they had been accustomed to.
Nonetheless, some employees welcomed the event, alleging that ghost staff populate the Assembly’s payroll and that the EFCC’s involvement is critical to determine and take away them from service.
