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AS the Senate prepares for resumption next week, Tuesday,
plans have been concluded by the leadership of the
legislature to place six senators on suspension over their
involvement in the recent petition to the police over alleged
forgery of Senate rules.
The six senators who have been accused of breaching the
rule of not just the Senate in particular but also the National
Assembly in general, are expected to be placed on indefinite
suspension pending the submission of an investigation into
allegations against them, expected to be read on Tuesday.
Two senators close to the leadership of the Senate, who
spoke to Vanguard but preferred not to be mentioned, said
the six senators were found to have been actively involved
in the petition to the Nigeria Police, alleging forgery of the
Senate Standing Rule, a development they said, was against
the legislative immunity the National Assembly has.
Two of the senators, who are not only ranking in status but
had also been in several sensitive committees in the
previous assembly, said the suspension which will be
effected during next Tuesday’s plenary, would follow a
motion to be raised by one of the senators loyal to the
Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.
The motion will call on the Senate to look into the allegation
of forgery of Senate Rule by some members and subsequent
petition to the police for investigation, which they noted,
resulted in the current crisis in the legislature.
At
this
point,
he
said
the
six
suspected senators, all of who are die-hard loyalists of
Senator Ahmad Lawan, who lost his senate presidency bid
to Senator Saraki, would be placed on indefinite
suspension, after which they will be subsequently directed
to appear before the Senate Committee on Ethics and
Privileges, which according to him, would be named in the
early hours of Tuesday’s plenary, to defend the allegation.
All the six senators, visibly among who are senators Kabiru
Marafa, representing Zamfara Central and Suleiman
Hunkuyi, representing Kaduna North, are not only from the
ruling All Progressives Congress, APC , but also from the
Senate Unity Forum, a group of senators who are against
the emergence of Senator Saraki, as Senate President.
“Some senators who lost their bid to be in the Senate
leadership have decided that we must not settle down for
legislative business which we were in the first place elected
here to do and we are not going to allow this continue. We
have tolerated distraction enough but I can tell you that all
these will come to an end as we resume.
“We have decided on what to do in order to move forward
and first among the actions we are taking immediately from
Tuesday, is to suspend these renegades in our midst.
“In spite of our rule which forbids our issues being taken
outside of the legislature, some people have gone to ridicule
us and we must not allow this to continue if the National
Assembly, especially the Senate, which we have known in
the past few years must be allowed to work for Nigerians,”
the source said.
Saraki, Ekweremadu must go
But in a swift reaction to the alleged impending suspension,
spokesman for the pro-Lawan senators, Senator Kabiru
Marafa, dismissed the alleged action as the ranting of ants,
vowing that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy,
Ike Ekweremadu as well as other principal officers in the
Senate leadership would be sent parking on Tuesday, July
28, when the upper legislative chamber resumes.
Marafa asked people not to believe yet that there was a
leadership in place in the Senate, saying a proper
leadership would be put in place when the Red Chamber
reconvenes next week just as he said Saraki and his three
colleagues were occupying illegal offices that according to
him, would soon be swept off their feet.
Asked whether he was aware of their alleged impending
suspension by the Senate leadership, Senator Marafa, in a
terse text message to Vanguard, responded: “Who is Senate
leadership? There is nothing like that in the 8th Senate.
What you have is a group of persons occupying those
offices against the rules of the Senate and the Nigerian
Nation! Tell them dem no fit!”
The Senate is expected to name the various committees
next week with their membership after which it will start full
legislative business, having been on a self-imposed recess.
Chapter XIII, ( 97) -(1) (a) of the Senate Rule says: “There
shall be a committee to be known as Committee of Selection
appointed at the commencement of the life of the Senate to
perform the functions allocated to it by these rules, and for
such other matters as the Senate may from time to time
refer to it.
“(b) The Committee on Selection shall consist of the Senate
President, the Deputy Senate President, the Senate Majority
Leader, Chief Whip, Deputy Majority Leader, Deputy Chief
Whip, Minority Leader, Deputy Minority Leader, Minority
Whip and the Deputy Minority Whip.
“ (c) the President shall be the Chairman of the Committee
of Selection and in his absence, the Deputy President; (d)
nominating senators to serve on committees to consider
any special matters brought before the Senate.”
It will be recalled that Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi,
representing Kaduna North on the platform of the ruling APC
had petitioned the police, alleging substitution of the Senate
Rule without the authorization of the Senate.


Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/petition-senate-mulls-suspension-of-marafa-hunkuyi-4-others/

.If saraki wants to suspend the 6 six senators, he should be ready to suspend all the members of the unity forum.If they didn't forged the senate rule they used for elections,he should not give a damn about the petition.

Dogara should follow suit and suspend all recalcitrant reps.

Saraki is playing with fire. Suspending any senator at this point will be his biggest undoing. All hell will be let loose and they fight we saw last month in the house of reps will look like a child's play compare to what will happen in the senate. Instead of defending the allegation of forgery, they are planning to suspend the petitioners.

Can't wait for WWE in the Senate...

Let the fight continue....cant wait for Tuesday to come. Olatunji for the purpose of this latest Tuesday morning raw, lets call Saraki Brock Lesner

Bring the fight on!Interesting weeks ahead

frankyychiji:
Let the fight continue....cant wait for Tuesday to come. Olatunji for the purpose of this latest Tuesday morning raw, lets call Saraki Brock Lesner

Marafa is Randy Orton..He's fearless, he never get tired, he's Saraki's main nemesis..

Any attempt to suspend them will amount to more disunity in apc. Why don't this 8th NA allow peace to reign and concentrate on their primary assignments.

Interesting......


Meanwhile, change is here!

Attack leads to revenge, revenge leads to avenge. Avenge, revenge, Avenge, revenge, avenge, revenge.........................

olatunji21:
Marafa is Randy Orton..He's fearless, he never get tired, he's Saraki's main nemesis..

Marafa na warrior oh!

Suspend the basards!!!!
Further divide the already polarized APC
And create more room for a historic comeback of Africa's largest umbrella!!!!!!!
Long live PDP!!
Long live Nigeria!!!

sultan457:
AS the Senate prepares for resumption next week, Tuesday,
plans have been concluded by the leadership of the
legislature to place six senators on suspension over their
involvement in the recent petition to the police over alleged
forgery of Senate rules.
The six senators who have been accused of breaching the
rule of not just the Senate in particular but also the National
Assembly in general, are expected to be placed on indefinite
suspension pending the submission of an investigation into
allegations against them, expected to be read on Tuesday.
Two senators close to the leadership of the Senate, who
spoke to Vanguard but preferred not to be mentioned, said
the six senators were found to have been actively involved
in the petition to the Nigeria Police, alleging forgery of the
Senate Standing Rule, a development they said, was against
the legislative immunity the National Assembly has.
Two of the senators, who are not only ranking in status but
had also been in several sensitive committees in the
previous assembly, said the suspension which will be
effected during next Tuesday’s plenary, would follow a
motion to be raised by one of the senators loyal to the
Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.
The motion will call on the Senate to look into the allegation
of forgery of Senate Rule by some members and subsequent
petition to the police for investigation, which they noted,
resulted in the current crisis in the legislature.
At
this
point,
he
said
the
six
suspected senators, all of who are die-hard loyalists of
Senator Ahmad Lawan, who lost his senate presidency bid
to Senator Saraki, would be placed on indefinite
suspension, after which they will be subsequently directed
to appear before the Senate Committee on Ethics and
Privileges, which according to him, would be named in the
early hours of Tuesday’s plenary, to defend the allegation.
All the six senators, visibly among who are senators Kabiru
Marafa, representing Zamfara Central and Suleiman
Hunkuyi, representing Kaduna North, are not only from the
ruling All Progressives Congress, APC , but also from the
Senate Unity Forum, a group of senators who are against
the emergence of Senator Saraki, as Senate President.
“Some senators who lost their bid to be in the Senate
leadership have decided that we must not settle down for
legislative business which we were in the first place elected
here to do and we are not going to allow this continue. We
have tolerated distraction enough but I can tell you that all
these will come to an end as we resume.
“We have decided on what to do in order to move forward
and first among the actions we are taking immediately from
Tuesday, is to suspend these renegades in our midst.
“In spite of our rule which forbids our issues being taken
outside of the legislature, some people have gone to ridicule
us and we must not allow this to continue if the National
Assembly, especially the Senate, which we have known in
the past few years must be allowed to work for Nigerians,”
the source said.
Saraki, Ekweremadu must go
But in a swift reaction to the alleged impending suspension,
spokesman for the pro-Lawan senators, Senator Kabiru
Marafa, dismissed the alleged action as the ranting of ants,
vowing that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy,
Ike Ekweremadu as well as other principal officers in the
Senate leadership would be sent parking on Tuesday, July
28, when the upper legislative chamber resumes.
Marafa asked people not to believe yet that there was a
leadership in place in the Senate, saying a proper
leadership would be put in place when the Red Chamber
reconvenes next week just as he said Saraki and his three
colleagues were occupying illegal offices that according to
him, would soon be swept off their feet.
Asked whether he was aware of their alleged impending
suspension by the Senate leadership, Senator Marafa, in a
terse text message to Vanguard, responded: “Who is Senate
leadership? There is nothing like that in the 8th Senate.
What you have is a group of persons occupying those
offices against the rules of the Senate and the Nigerian
Nation! Tell them dem no fit!”
The Senate is expected to name the various committees
next week with their membership after which it will start full
legislative business, having been on a self-imposed recess.
Chapter XIII, ( 97) -(1) (a) of the Senate Rule says: “There
shall be a committee to be known as Committee of Selection
appointed at the commencement of the life of the Senate to
perform the functions allocated to it by these rules, and for
such other matters as the Senate may from time to time
refer to it.
“(b) The Committee on Selection shall consist of the Senate
President, the Deputy Senate President, the Senate Majority
Leader, Chief Whip, Deputy Majority Leader, Deputy Chief
Whip, Minority Leader, Deputy Minority Leader, Minority
Whip and the Deputy Minority Whip.
“ (c) the President shall be the Chairman of the Committee
of Selection and in his absence, the Deputy President; (d)
nominating senators to serve on committees to consider
any special matters brought before the Senate.”
It will be recalled that Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi,
representing Kaduna North on the platform of the ruling APC
had petitioned the police, alleging substitution of the Senate
Rule without the authorization of the Senate.


Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/petition-senate-mulls-suspension-of-marafa-hunkuyi-4-others/

These useless self-serving egocentric people should be driven away from the senate and let the country move on. Aha! Even when their party said they have recognized the senate leadership, what powers has a few people to be holding the country to ransom? WHAT IS THEIR BACKBONE? IS IT BOKO HARAM?

Advice to the IGP Arase

Please start selecting your finest officers to serve in the Senate and HoR chambers 28th of July.

If possible they should have some dry-run for possible rancorous sessions.

They should be reminded of their roles to be fair, stable and professional in neutralizing crisis. No Lawmaker (including Saraki and Ekweremadu that are being investigated for rules forgery) should be given preferential treatment over others.

They should insist on having some of their men within the chambers.

They should have enough men to separate 20 simultaneous duels.

Provisions should be made for Ambulances and Medics.

olatunji21:
Marafa is Randy Orton..He's fearless, he never get tired, he's Saraki's main nemesis..

Randy is fearless alright but can he slay the beast? I don't think so.