Sitting Presidents will no longer enjoy immunity in criminal matters if the alteration being proposed to the 1999 Constitution by the Senate sails through.

Also to lose immunity is the Vice President, Governors and their deputies in the impending alteration.

This followed the second reading of a Bill titled: “A Bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to qualify criminal liability for certain public officers under Section 308” sponsored by the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege.

The explanatory memorandum of the Bill stated that: “This act provides for qualification of the immunity clause to exclude immunity for Public Officers referred to in Section 308 from criminal liability where the offence involves misappropriation of funds belonging to the Federal, State or Local Government and also the use of thugs to foment violence.”

Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) reads: “(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Constitution, but subject to subsection (2) of this section –

“(a) no civil or criminal proceedings shall be instituted or continued against a person to whom this section applies during his period of office;

“(b) a person to whom this section applies shall not be arrested or imprisoned during that period either in pursuance of the process of any court or otherwise; and

“(c) no process of any court requiring or compelling the appearance of a person to whom this section applies, shall be applied for or issued:

“Provided that in ascertaining whether any period of limitation has expired for the purposes of any proceedings against a person to whom this section applies, no account shall be taken of his period of office.

“(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to civil proceedings against a person to whom this section applies in his official capacity or to civil or criminal proceedings in which such a person is only a nominal party.

“(3) This section applies to a person holding the office of President or Vice-President, Governor or Deputy Governor; and the reference in this section to “period of office” is a reference to the period during which the person holding such office is required to perform the functions of the office.”

The proposed Bill provides that a President, Vice President, Governors and Deputy Governors shall lose their immunity if they are investigated by security and anti-graft agencies, including the courts.

The Bill said in part that: “Section 308 of the Principal Act is altered by (a) Substituting for subsection (2), a new subsection “(2)”

Source: https://abntv.ng/2020/03/breaking-senate-to-remove-immunity-for-president-vice-president-governors-deputy-governors/

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E go make sense, but these rubber stamps CANNOT

The North is politically far more advanced than the South. The irony is that they use their errand boys from the South to push forward their manipulative bills. As they feel the hour for a Southerner to become the President has come again, they are now proposing bills to put him under check. I expected Omo Agege to push for a better bill. A bill that will better the lot of an Uhrobo man. A town under his Senatorial District is being decimated by the herdsmen in connivance with the soldiers, he never initiated any bill that will help his dying communities but for the interest of the North.

Like that's the final bus stop

Good move by the 9th Senate!

Dreal1247:
The North is politically far more advanced than the South. The irony is that they use their errand boys from the South to push forward their manipulative bills. As they feel the hour for a Southerner to become the President has come again, they are now proposing bills to put him under check. I expected Omo Agege to push for a better bill. A bill that will better the lot of an Uhrobo man. A town under his Senatorial District is being decimated by the herdsmen in connivance with the soldiers, he never initiated any bill that will help his dying communities but for the interest of the North.

Smh.

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Dreal1247:
The North is politically far more advanced than the South. The irony is that they use their errand boys from the South to push forward their manipulative bills. As they feel the hour for a Southerner to become the President has come again, they are now proposing bills to put him under check. I expected Omo Agege to push for a better bill. A bill that will better the lot of an Uhrobo man. A town under his Senatorial District is being decimated by the herdsmen in connivance with the soldiers, he never initiated any bill that will help his dying communities but for the interest of the North.

Them take North swear for una?

Your senators and representatives no dey that national assembly?
Mtchew...

This rubber stamp senate... We are watching