BY Salisu Maradun

Gusau—The official mace of the Zamfara State House of
Assembly was yesterday broken following a free-for-all on the
floor of the House between members of the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, and the opposition to propose a
bill granting the state government the permission to secure N3
billion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, as members
of the opposition PDP strongly rejected the idea saying that the
government must first of all, give the break down on how the
money would be spent.
The position of the PDP members led to a heated debate on the
floor of the house leading to a free-for-all. The mace which is
the symbol of authority of the Assembly was broken to pieces
during the melee.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after the crisis, the Minority
Leader of the House, Ibrahim Dole, said the PDP members were
informed on June 23, that there would be a sitting to pass a
resolution on the government’s proposal to dispose its N24
billion shares from the Niger Delta Power Holding Company but
added that the date was postponed without their knowledge.
About 19 million units of the shares belonged to the state
government and the 14 local government areas of the state.
He said: “And even the day the session was eventually held,
some members who were absent were marked present, while
some us who were present were marked absent and above all
they failed to produce the order of the proceeding that day.”
Efforts to speak with the Deputy Speaker, Mohammed Abubakar
Gummi who chaired the sitting proved abortive.

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