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Melaye’s Recall: I Pity Kogi People – Ekweremadu by megafem1: 8:08pm On Jul 11, 2017 |
Deputy Senate President, DSP, Ike
Ekweremadu, has expressed pity for the
people of Kogi state following the on-going
recall process of the Senator representing
Kogi West, Dino Melaye.
The DSP spoke on the floor of the senate on
Tuesday while reacting to an advertorial on
a National daily in which the Attorney
General of the state, Ibrahim Muhammad,
called him out over a comment he made on
the floor of the senate regarding Dino’s
recall.
Recall that Ekweremadu had last week told
his fellow lawmakers that process to recall
Dino was dead on arrival, adding that the
senate would have to certify the recall
process carried out by INEC before he can
be sacked.
Muhammad wrote, “I must put on record
that legal opinion of senator Ekweremadu
on the role of the senate in the recall
process; the senate has no role whatsoever
in the recall exercise than to receive the
certificate under the hand of the chairman
of INEC stating that the provision of section
69 of the constitution has been complied
with, see 68h of the 1999 constitution as
amended.”
However, in reaction to this, Ekweremadu
said the Attorney general did not mention
section 68 (2) of the constitution where it
said the senate would still deliberate on
whether Melaye should be recalled or not.
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He added that he had pity for the people of
Kogi state for appointing such an individual
as their Attorney General.
Ekweremadu said, “This morning my
attention was drawn to a three-page
advertorial, pages 20, 21 and 22 of the
Leadership Newspaper by Ibrahim
Muhammmad, attorney-general of Kogi,
who was responding to my contribution on
the floor of the senate when Senator Dino
Melaye informed this senate of the efforts
of the people of his constituency to recall
him.
“I want to advise the people of Kogi state
and indeed his constituents to apply their
time to more useful venture in view of the
very difficult conditions of recall of
parliamentarians and in reference to the
attorney-general, I did say that my learned
friend may not have advised the people or
indeed the government appropriately.
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“So, this morning, Kogi state government
took an advertorial to respond to me and I
understand that every page costs about
N700,000. For this alone, they spent about
N2 million and I understand that it is an
about five other papers so we are looking
at about N12 million spent to responding to
my comment.
“I pity the people of Kogi state that hired
this kind of attorney-general and this is
unfortunate that they are paying a public
servant and he is unable to do a simple
work looking at the constitution.
“We must emphasise that 68 (2) is not part
of the amendment since 1999. This has
been the original provision of the
constitution. It has nothing to do with Dino
or whoever. It has been there since 1999
for him not to know about it – I don’t know
where he went to law school anyway.
“If he has been properly educated, I believe
he should have been conversant with the
basic provisions of the constitution. I’m
even his senior at the bar, he ought to
show some respect because that is what
we were taught at the law school, to
respect our senior.
“But for the avoidance of doubt, I want to
believe I have better credentials in the legal
profession and my interest was
constitutional law, I have a doctorate
degree in law and my area is constitutional
law. I have been chairman of the
constitutional review committee in this
national assembly since 2010.
“I expect the attorney-general instead of
displaying his ignorance to call and I
educate him on the correct position of the
law. So, I take exception to this and I believe
that he needs to refund the amount spent
on this to the people of Kogi. I call on the
house of assembly to institute an inquiry on
who paid for this and find a way of
receiving the money back to pay salaries of
Kogi state.” dailypost.ng/2017/07/11/melayes-recall-pity-kogi-people-ekweremadu/ |
Re: Melaye’s Recall: I Pity Kogi People – Ekweremadu by Mynd44: 8:15pm On Jul 11, 2017 |
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