The Nigerian Senate has kicked off an investigation into whether Senator President Bukola Saraki and Senator Dino Melaye have abused their privileges as lawmakers in the Upper House of legislature.

While Senate is investigating Saraki over claims that he allegedly used his office to seek revenge against Nigeria Customs Service boos Hameed Ali, Melaye is being investigated over claims that he may have forged his certificate with which he ran for the legislative seat.

The Senate resolved to probe Saraki and Melaye following a motion moved by Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South requesting that allegations against the two lawmakers should be investigated to ensure that there was no abuse of legislative privileges by them.

According to Ndume, allegations that the Senate invited Hameed Ali because he reportedly seized a bullet-proof Range Rover that belonged to Saraki because it did not have the proper papers needed to be looked into before the Red Chamber can move on with questioning Ali over the controversial issue of collecting Customs duties on old vehicles.

On the other hand, Ndume said allegations that Melaye did not really graduate from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria as claimed in his CV has to be investigated to make sure the truth is revealed.

The Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges is looking into the two matters and will report back to the house in two weeks.

Meanwhile, prominent lawyer Femi Falana has said the Senate has no lawful authority to summon Col Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service.

The human rights lawyer's claim, comes on the heels of the Senate’s invitation to the CGC, over not wearing his uniform.


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Waste of time and nothing else. Nothing good will come out of the investigation. If they want to prove to us that they are serious, Saraki should step aside as senate president and Dino should vacate his seat in the senate pending the conclusion of the investigation.

They already found him guilty by that crap they did on his profile on the Senate website earlier today.

Thank God for SR.

May the almighty continue to bless Sowore and his crew, amen.

Let Magu investigate please...

Dino is guilty

Exercise in futility

gbagam

saint047:
Exercise in futility

if Dino is guilty, he should be made to face the law. Is he above the law?

Same old story, we are watching. I believe one day we will get it right,for now we are still in Egypt.

They cannot be a judge in their own case, I will only take it serious wen ICPC decides to take it up n look at d documents he submitted to inec. If truly he didn't graduate n he submitted a university degree as his qualification to inec, den ICPC should prosecute him.

omenkaLives:
They already found him guilty by that crap they did on his profile on the Senate website earlier today.

Thank God for SR.

May the almighty continue to bless Sowore and his crew, amen.

for distracting Nigerians with fake news against opposition chai

Scream:
Let Magu investigate please...

you wan finish dino abi?

Just a process of passing vote of confidence after a good cashflow.

mtchew. yeye people

That's not their constitutional duty. Leave that for the appropriate body vested wt such authority. The carpet is filled up already, we can't afford dis to b swept under d carpet as usual.
Dino d riff Raff sinator

Hmm...Dino sorry dude. But if anything ur master at d top forged his waec certificate. So u can use dat as a reference 2 challenge ur case if any dust arises.

Scream:
Let Magu investigate please...

lol....Magu will implicate them.

Dino attended A.B.U but he never graduate........That school wicked Sha.

The dog and his master under investigation

here we go again.....

Dont expect the economy to be good when 95% of our politicians dont have degree certificates/are half baked graduates
Dinos main problem is that He talks too much...

And one wonders why the country is this terrible?!
Every single one of these dudes parading themselves as leaders have humongous blemishes and screaming question marks on their integrity.

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Farmerforlife:

Nigeria can only move forward when we stop supporting those found guilty, even if he/she is our tribesman. We also need to look at each case on its own merit and forget about who else 'did it'.

I don't care about those "poor" politically redefined sentiments.
Staring from buhari himself, has he cleared his certificate controversy to an extent that satisfies the collective confidence of Nigerians?
These vampires called politicians know how to "play" the judiciary to get their way. And when they manage to qualify, their conducts speak eloquently in such a manner that the average man on the street cringes with pain.
They simply do the basic minimum required by law (by hook or by crook) to perpetuate themselves on our commonwealth.
Very shameful!

Lord have mercy!

Dinosaur again?

This Dinosaur self!

This is a very awesome nonsense.

Mtcheeeew... Too many irrelevant dramas