Crisis has rocked the Delta State House of Assembly, as the House went on forced adjournment in order to safe the jobs of its nine principal officers.
Some members of the House had demanded the immediate resignation of the oficcers for alleged gross misconduct and display of anti-parliamentary tendencies.
Findings by our correspondent showed that the impeachment of the principal officers was slated for Tuesday before the latest adjournment till Thursday, apparently conceived to calm frayed nerves.
It was learnt that 20 members have reportedly demanded the resignation of the nine principal officers of the law-making body.
There are 29 members in House.
The Clerk of the House, Mr. Raymond Yavbieri, abruptly canceled the planned sittings of the assembly for Tuesday and Wednesday, on Monday night on the pretext that the emergency caucus meeting of the House scheduled for Tuesday in Asaba, the state capital, informed the development.
It was learnt that the grouse of the aggrieved lawmakers was the trip by the wives of the principal officers and female members of the assembly to South Africa for a week of relaxation.
Although the team returned to the country on Monday, 20 members of the assembly were infuriated that their spouses were not considered for the trip.
Despite the fact that the wife of the Speaker, Mrs. Olise Imegwu, did not make the trip, the members planned to crucify her husband for approving the journey.
Our correspondent reported that the House had been engulfed in shady financial deals with the executive arm of government in recent times.
The latest development occurred barely three weeks after the aborted multi-million naira trips of the lawmakers to three countries for relaxation after 100 days of hectic legislative duties.�
The lawmakers, who were bottled with anger, returned to the country from the foreign trips on the discovery that some principal officers who were to facilitate the trips allegedly siphoned the money meant for the assignment.
Our correspondent learnt that the abortion of the foreign trips by the lawmakers and the exemption of their spouses from the latest trip to South Africa, snowballed into the latest crisis in the House.
However, all the combatants in the House did not volunteer the amount the controversial trip of their wives to South Africa was estimated to cost the Delta tax payers.
Subsequently, stern- looking riot policemen and armed thugs allegedly mobilised by an embattled principal officer of the House, kept vigil at the assembly complex on Tuesday, ostensibly, to protect the jobs of their benefactors.
The caucus meeting initiated by Omegwu to douse the prevailing tension at his Asaba residence on Tuesday ended abruptly as a good number of the aggrieved members stormed out of the scene, fuming with anger.