Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have vowed to proceed with impeachment moves against President Goodluck Jonathan over non implementation of the 2012 budget, Daily Trust heard in Abuja yesterday.

The House had on July 19th 2012 threatened to commence impeachment proceedings against the president over failure of the federal government to implement the budget.
Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal had last week directed chairmen of all the 89 standing committees to submit reports on level of implementation of the 2012 budget by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) under their oversight.

Daily Trust gathered that, the MPs have now resolved to push for impeachment during a pre-resumption meeting held on Sunday night at official residence of one of the principal officers in Abuja.



A member who attended the meeting but does not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter said “it is the resolve of the House that if the report of the committees on budget implementation indicates failure, the parliament will not collect the 2013 appropriation bill. The budget has to be implemented to a reasonable degree”.

“We are not just issuing threats but its our resolve that anybody who refused to implement the 2012 Appropriations Act will be impeached because we won’t allow them to continue violating the law with impunity.”

The MPs resolved to begin debating reports of the committees tomorrow adding “We have also written to the MDAs to submit their status of budget implementation for the first, second and third quota and we will still go on oversight to ascertain the truth of what they present to us.”

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the house of REP alone cannot impeach GEJ. THE COURT HAS ALREADY SAID THAT.so they should keep exibiting their lack of knoWledge of the constitution.foolish people

Initial gragra . . . .who fit make him proceed . . .

karl max: the house of REP alone cannot impeach GEJ. THE COURT HAS ALREADY SAID THAT.so they should keep exibiting their lack of knoWledge of the constitution.foolish people

The house and senate can.

Kobojunkie:

The house and senate can.

yes they can,is not only the REP that has been making noise like dogs about impeachment?.please they should focus on the pib bill and stop chasing shadoWs

Do we really need this _lowerhouse?
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89 standing committees, each chairman and members collecting allowances aside from their already over bloated salaries.
Whither Nigeria

Except in Kaduna where Balerabe Musa was impeached in 1981, no other executive has ever been impeached. All civillian presidents from the time of Shehu Shagari have all commited impeachable offences but Nigeria is not the place where impeachment can work at least for now. Money must change hands while the clamour for impeachment will die down.

“The presence of National Assembly is not sufficient to draw the Senate into the ring. The real and imminent urgency may not have been reached to warrant the intervention of this court. To this extent, the court must exercise its powers with caution as an arm of government. The procedure and guideline provided for in section 143 (1) to (9) are so elaborate and impeachment should not be undertaken so casually so as not to send wrong signals to foreign investors” the court noted.

These sections provide as follows,
143(1) The President or Vice-President may be removed from office in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(2) Whenever a notice of any allegation in writing signed by not less than one-third of the members of the National Assembly:-
(a) is presented to the President of the Senate;
(b) stating that the holder of the office of President or Vice-President is guilty of gross misconduct in the performance of the functions of his office, detailed particulars of which shall be specified,

the President of the Senate shall within seven days of the receipt of the notice cause a copy thereof to be served on the holder of the office and on each member of the National Assembly, and shall also cause any statement made in reply to the allegation by the holder of the office to be served on each member of the National Assembly.

(3) Within fourteen days of the presentation of the notice to the President of the Senate (whether or not any statement was made by the holder of the office in reply to the allegation contained in the notice) each House of the National Assembly shall resolve by motion without any debate whether or not the allegation shall be investigated.

(4) A motion of the National Assembly that the allegation be investigated shall not be declared as having been passed, unless it is supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of all the members of each House of the National Assembly.

(5) Within seven days of the passing of a motion under the foregoing provisions, the Chief Justice of Nigeria shall at the request of the President of the Senate appoint a Panel of seven persons who in his opinion are of unquestionable integrity, not being members of any public service, legislative house or political party, to investigate the allegation as provide in this section.

(6) The holder of an office whose conduct is being investigated under this section shall have the right to defend himself in person and be represented before the Panel by legal practitioners of his own choice.

(7) A Panel appointed under this section shall -
(a) have such powers and exercise its functions in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed by the National Assembly; and
(b) within three months of its appointment report its findings to each House of the National Assembly.

( Where the Panel reports to each House of the National Assembly that the allegation has not been proved, no further proceedings shall be taken in respect of the matter.

(9) Where the report of the Panel is that the allegation against the holder of the office has been proved, then within fourteen days of the receipt of the report at the House the National Assembly shall consider the report, and if by a resolution of each House of the National Assembly supported by not less than two-thirds majority of all its members, the report of the Panel is adopted, then the holder of the office shall stand removed from office as from the date of the adoption of the report.


they wont be able to muster the mandated two-thirds majority of what is required by the constitution in their own house.they should stick to hat they know. wasting our resources

ITbomb: Do we really need this _lowerhouse?

The matter of the fact is both chambers are pointless their existance have contribute backwardness to the country considering the panels they raised in their different chambers but finally they will end up coming with no result.