Kogi House of Assembly during plenary
The Kogi State House of Assembly resumed sitting on March 10 2016 and mandated its legal representatives to file a contempt of court case against the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yabuku Dogara, the Chairman and Secretary of the 10-man House Committee that claimed to have investigated the wranglings in the Kogi House of Assembly.
This is coming against the backdrop that the lower chamber of the national assembly had ordered the sealing-off of the Kogi State Assembly complex, which it had claimed to have taken over its functions due to the internal dispute that has divided members into two factions.
The House also constituted a committee to further investigate sponsors of the crises as well as honourable members involved in the incitement to promote disharmony.
The House, in its resolution, also rejected in its entirety the decision of the Federal House of Assembly to take over their functions, hinging their position on the provision of Section 11 (5) of the Nigerian Constitution.
The Majority Leader, Hon. Friday Sani, had earlier moved the motion for which the resolutions were arrived at.
The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Umar Ahmed Imam, who presided over the sitting of 10 members out of 23, drew the attention of the House of Representatives to the fact that the issues concerning the legality or otherwise of the impeachment of the former speaker were before the Federal High Court for determination, adding that, the National Assembly went ahead despite a court injunction.
“It is of concern to this Assembly that the House of Representatives should act in flagrant disobedience to the Federal High Court that restrained them from interfering by seeking the appearance of same before it in the determination of such matter as to competence of the House of Representatives to so interfere in …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
