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MuguliciousMUGU:
The police said on Wednesday that they had concluded their investigations into the alleged forgery of Senate rules by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and some principal officers and management of the National Assembly.
The police said they had interrogated all the persons involved and that the findings would be made public next week.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, told one of our correspondents on the telephone on Wednesday that “the police had done the needful.”
When asked if investigators had quizzed all the suspects in the forgery case, he said, “We have talked to all the people involved in the case and by next week, the findings would be made public.
“The outcome of investigation and legal advice will determine who to be prosecuted.”
Ojukwu spoke shortly after the Senate Unity Forum, a group made up of anti-Senate President Bukola Saraki senators, expressed concern over the slow pace of police investigation into the forgery allegations.
The SUF called on well-meaning Nigerians to, as a matter of urgency, prevail on authorities concerned to commence necessary investigation that would unravel the alleged forgery scandal.
The group’s secretary, Senator Suleiman Hunkunyi, had petitioned the police, alleging that the 2015 Senate Standing Rules was forged.
Hunkunyi’s petition read in part, “We write to bring to your attention the existence of the fraudulent introduction of a 2015 Senate Standing Rules as amended.
“We wish to attach the original and authentic Standing Order for 2011 that was used by the 7th Senate, Annexure A.
“We again attached the annex Herero, a purported amended Standing Orders 2015, which was used by the Clerk to the National Assembly (along with the Clerk of the Senate) in inaugurating the 8th Senate on June 9, 2015.
“The so-called new Standing Orders purports to allow for secret instead of the open ballot system that has been prevalent in all Senate elections as permitted by the extant rules.
“This infraction, among others, arises from the fraudulent production of the Rules without an approved consideration by the 7th Senate.
“At no time was the Standing Orders of the Senate amended during the entire life of the 7th Senate neither has the 8th Senate sat for long enough to produce the rules now being circulated and in use”.
The police, on the strength of the petition, subsequently quizzed the leadership of the 7th Senate, including Senator David Mark; his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu; former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba; and the former Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang.
But the SUF, in a statement by its spokesperson, Senator Kabir Marafa, in Abuja on Wednesday, lamented that the police action on the issue was becoming too slow.
Marafa said, “The problem is that the Senate was inaugurated using a forged document. Who forged that document? We can’t gloss over or sweep that criminality under the carpet, Nigeria is not a Banana republic.
“The standing order is an upshot of the constitution, it spelt out clearly in order 110 (1-5) how it can be amended just like the constitution spelt out how it can be amended in section 9 (1-4).
“The insertion of order 3 (2 IV) & 3 (3e i-iiii) in the 2015 edition is a deliberate act perpetrated by 5th columnist operating within the National Assembly to sabotage the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“It was done to cause friction, disaffection and generate bad blood among senators from different zones and provoke confusion in the senate with the sole aim of stagnating government business to give them time to perfect their agenda.”
He lamented, for instance, that the insertion of order 3 (2 iv), was done to favour the Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the Senate who supported Senator Bukola Saraki, to become the Senate President.
He said, “For 16 years of the PDP leadership, the presiding officers and committee headship were skewed in favour of the zones that produced more PDP senators but suddenly they introduced equality of zones in the distribution of these offices because they lost out, this is unacceptable by APC senators.
“Let me use this medium to call on all well-meaning Nigerians to as a matter of urgency call on all the authorities concerned to commence investigation into this illegality before it overwhelms us as a nation.”
Marafa added that there was no law that set time frame within which to clear the service chiefs, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari had the powers to appoint the service chiefs on acting capacity.
The President had on Monday appointed new service chiefs and a National Security Adviser after sacking those he inherited from his predecessor, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
Buhari had said the service chiefs would function in acting capacity pending their approval by the National Assembly as required by the Constitution.
http://www.punchng.com/news/report-on-ekweremadu-out-next-week-police/

MuguliciousMUGU:
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“The outcome of investigation and legal advice will determine who to be prosecuted.”
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The group’s secretary, Senator Suleiman Hunkunyi, had petitioned the police, alleging that the 2015 Senate Standing Rules was forged.
Hunkunyi’s petition read in part, “We write to bring to your attention the existence of the fraudulent introduction of a 2015 Senate Standing Rules as amended.
“We wish to attach the original and authentic Standing Order for 2011 that was used by the 7th Senate, Annexure A.
“We again attached the annex Herero, a purported amended Standing Orders 2015, which was used by the Clerk to the National Assembly (along with the Clerk of the Senate) in inaugurating the 8th Senate on June 9, 2015.
“The so-called new Standing Orders purports to allow for secret instead of the open ballot system that has been prevalent in all Senate elections as permitted by the extant rules.
“This infraction, among others, arises from the fraudulent production of the Rules without an approved consideration by the 7th Senate.
“At no time was the Standing Orders of the Senate amended during the entire life of the 7th Senate neither has the 8th Senate sat for long enough to produce the rules now being circulated and in use”.
The police, on the strength of the petition, subsequently quizzed the leadership of the 7th Senate, including Senator David Mark; his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu; former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba; and the former Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang.
But the SUF, in a statement by its spokesperson, Senator Kabir Marafa, in Abuja on Wednesday, lamented that the police action on the issue was becoming too slow.
Marafa said, “The problem is that the Senate was inaugurated using a forged document. Who forged that document? We can’t gloss over or sweep that criminality under the carpet, Nigeria is not a Banana republic.
“The standing order is an upshot of the constitution, it spelt out clearly in order 110 (1-5) how it can be amended just like the constitution spelt out how it can be amended in section 9 (1-4).
“The insertion of order 3 (2 IV) & 3 (3e i-iiii) in the 2015 edition is a deliberate act perpetrated by 5th columnist operating within the National Assembly to sabotage the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
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http://www.punchng.com/news/report-on-ekweremadu-out-next-week-police/

Ghandi12:


If truly there are no verifiable records of the 7th Senate amending the Senate Standing orders 2011 then the SUF have a very good case. Apart from the usual suspects police may want to find out from the Clerk where he got the controversial 2015 Standing orders from.

Who forged the document? Of course PDP forged the document. SP Saraki with his 7 APC friends are back in PDP.

This is a very easy way for Buhari-Led-APC to legally destroy its enemies in the Senate before they do more damage.

If no one owns up to the document and the 7th Senate records do not show its origin APC should just snatch back their right now before things get messier.

brooklyn49:
so.....even u

Ghandi12:


If truly there are no verifiable records of the 7th Senate amending the Senate Standing orders 2011 then the SUF have a very good case. Apart from the usual suspects police may want to find out from the Clerk where he got the controversial 2015 Standing orders from.

Who forged the document? Of course PDP forged the document. SP Saraki with his 7 APC friends are back in PDP.


This is a very easy way for Buhari-Led-APC to legally destroy its enemies in the Senate before they do more damage.

If no one owns up to the document and the 7th Senate records do not show its origin APC should just snatch back their right now before things get messier.

chukwudi44:


The Senate standing rule is not Nigeria's constitution and hence is subject to amendment by the NASS bureaucracy. The standing rules of 99,2003,2007,20011and 2015 are unique in each own ways.This fools are fighting a lost cause. There was no constitutional amendment or Senate sitting before the 99 Senate rule came in force,if other other NASS decided to adopt similar house rules as the 99 house rules does not mean it cannot be changed in 2015.

Their only recourse would be to go to court to challenge the amendments if there are not satisfied with it.There are just wasting their time involving the police. The police would never arrest any principal officer as the stakes are very high and in reality no criminal activity have been carried out.

The only person who could complain of forgery in this case is the house clerk whoose responsibility it is to make the rules. Ekweremadu ,Saraki and David Mark are just too big to be intimidated by police. These man are very powerful men in their own ways

chukwudi44:

The Senate standing rule is not Nigeria's constitution and hence is subject to amendment by the NASS bureaucracy.

chukwudi44:

...This fools are fighting a lost cause...

chukwudi44:

...There was no constitutional amendment or Senate sitting before the 99 Senate rule came in force,if other other NASS decided to adopt similar house rules as the 99 house rules does not mean it cannot be changed in 2015.

chukwudi44:

...if other other NASS decided to adopt similar house rules as the 99 house rules does not mean it cannot be changed in 2015.

chukwudi44:
[b]...Their only recourse would be to go to court to challenge the amendments if there are not satisfied with it.[/b]There are just wasting their time involving the police. The police would never arrest any principal officer as the stakes are very high and in reality no criminal activity have been carried out.

chukwudi44:
...The police would never arrest any principal officer as the stakes are very high and in reality no criminal activity have been carried out.

chukwudi44:
...Ekweremadu ,Saraki and David Mark are just too big to be intimidated by police. These man are very powerful men in their own ways

chukwudi44:


The Senate standing rule is not Nigeria's constitution and hence is subject to amendment by the NASS bureaucracy. The standing rules of 99,2003,2007,20011and 2015 are unique in each own ways.This fools are fighting a lost cause. There was no constitutional amendment or Senate sitting before the 99 Senate rule came in force,if other other NASS decided to adopt similar house rules as the 99 house rules does not mean it cannot be changed in 2015.

Their only recourse would be to go to court to challenge the amendments if there are not satisfied with it.There are just wasting their time involving the police. The police would never arrest any principal officer as the stakes are very high and in reality no criminal activity have been carried out.

The only person who could complain of forgery in this case is the house clerk whoose responsibility it is to make the rules. Ekweremadu ,Saraki and David Mark are just too big to be intimidated by police. These man are very powerful men in their own ways

A former Federal Lawmaker in the Seventh Assembly, Senator Ita Enang says at no time did the Seventh Assembly amend its standing rules.
Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, Senator Enang, who chaired the Committee on Rules and Business in the Seventh Assembly, discredited reports that the Senate standing rules ended with the Assembly.
The Senate has been tangled in controversy as federal lawmakers in the Unity Forum wrote a petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, alleging that some sections of the 2015 Senate rules had been forged by certain Senators from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The contention was that the Senate standing rules for 2015 was secretly amended to replace the use of open ballot system with secret ballot system in the election of the principal officers in the Senate.