Assembly to look into the case of suspended staff of The Pointer newspaper

Further legislative hearing on the alleged indefinite suspension without pay of a staff of the Delta Printing and Publishing Corporation (DPPC), Comrade Joy E. Fasindor by the Delta State House of Assembly, has been deferred to September 2, 2025.

This is coming as the State House of Assembly Committee on public petition failed to submit its report at its sitting yesterday.

Deputy Chairman of the Assembly Committee on public petition and member representing Burutu 11 State Constituency, Hon Oloye Pereotu prayed for more time to consider the petition.

He appealed for more time just as he noted that September 2, this year, would be sufficient for the committee to do the needful.

However, the about Eight weeks deferment, The Pond News reports, may not be unconnected with the annual vacation of the House which was announced yesterday during plenary presided over by the Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Guwor.

It would be recalled that the House, barely three weeks ago, received a petition by the alleged suspended staff of the DPPC, Comrade Joy E. Fasindor on her alleged unlawful suspension without pay by the Corporation.

In the petition, the suspended staff of the Corporation is seeking the intervention of the State lawmakers in the alleged indefinite suspension without pay.

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