King Arthur's Lost Kingdom of ScamaLot...and the talented Merlins that inhabit in it there of.

Nbote:
Our judicial system is quite flawed and our lawyers are having a field day exploiting those flaws by delaying court processes and proceedings.. Watch how ZonBs who can't read or understand will rush in to scream blue murder on d National Assembly

How is thr judicial system flawed ? Do u understand your consitution ? D laws are made by the legislators, hence the loopholes.

When asked if the Senate was not aware of the highly publicised conviction of Dariye, Olaniyonu said the legislative arm of government does not act based on media reports but on official communication.

He said:

“The Senate President has no power to declare any seat vacant except he is presented with a request.When asked if the Senate was not aware of the highly publicised conviction of Dariye, Olaniyonu said the legislative arm of government does not act based on media reports but on official communication.

He said:

“The Senate President has no power to declare any seat vacant except he is presented with a request. We have to receive official communication from those who prosecuted him. We cannot read a report in the newspapers and go ahead to declare his seat vacant.



I find the bold very funny coming from the legislative arm of government. The way and manner we run the affairs of this country is filled with theatrics.

Yet this same people will want/expect EFCC to investigate someone for alleged corrupt practices just because there's an uploaded video/audio in social media platforms.

They will expect PMB to come out and say he is not PMB but Jubril of Sudan because some clowns believe otherwise and put the information on social media platforms.

NessaBoo:
Little wonder why the Senate has turned to a retirement home and hospice for governors and insatiable politicians. Isn't there a way to compel these people to reduce their allowances!!

Mr. Dariye is still receiving pensions as a former Governor. Corruption is institutionalized in Nigeria

damiloladuke:
Six months after his conviction by a Federal Capital Territory High Court, The Nigerian Senate still pays Senator Joshua Dariye allowances to the tune of N85.5million.

In a report by The Punch, Dariye is still receiving the N750, 000 salary and N13.5m monthly running cost from the National Assembly.

Investigations by The PUNCH revealed that Dariye, who represents Plateau-Central Senatorial District, was still receiving the allowances because his seat had yet to be declared vacant by the leadership of the National Assembly.

Dariye, who was governor of Plateau State from 1999 to 2007, was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and convicted by Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an FCT High Court for embezzling N1.162bn.

He was subsequently sentenced to 14 years in prison, but his sentence was reduced to 10 years by the Court of Appeal which upheld his conviction last month.

The ex-governor had even made a non-refundable payment of N8m for the All Progressives Congress’ Senate forms but was screened out by the party in September.

An aide to Dariye, Mr Christopher John, said the convict and his aides were still receiving their full allowances.

He said Dariye had appealed his conviction at the Supreme Court and it would be unfair for his seat to be declared vacant when he had not yet exploited all legal channels.

John said:

“He has already appealed the case; so he is still a senator pending the decision of the Supreme Court.

“It is right for us to still be receiving salaries because his case has not ended. There are many other senators having issues with the courts like Senator Attah Idoko from Kogi State. Judgment was given in favour of AVM Isaac Alfa but since Idoko has appealed the case, he is still serving and attending sittings as a senator pending the outcome of the case.

“Aides should still be receiving salary because Dariye is still a senator. And he is still receiving his allowances and will continue to do so until the case is closed.”

The Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said he could not confirm if Dariye was still receiving allowances or not.

Olaniyonu, however, said the former governor’s seat could not be declared vacant until the leadership of the Senate received official communication from the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation.

When asked if the Senate was not aware of the highly publicised conviction of Dariye, Olaniyonu said the legislative arm of government does not act based on media reports but on official communication.

He said:

“The Senate President has no power to declare any seat vacant except he is presented with a request. We have to receive official communication from those who prosecuted him. We cannot read a report in the newspapers and go ahead to declare his seat vacant.

“Even if a senator dies, his family would inform the leadership of the Senate or senators would go and pay a condolence visit and officially confirm that he is dead and then the Independent National Electoral Commission will be notified that the seat is vacant.

“Those who convicted Senator Dariye never informed us that he had been convicted. In fact, we even read that he bought the APC ticket to contest for re-election. The AGF prosecuted him and he ought to write the Senate so that the seat can be declared vacant and another election conducted.”

But the Director for Information at the National Assembly, Mr Jerry Agada, said there was no court order or directive from the Senate President to stop Dariye’s salary and so it could not be stopped.

Agada said it was possible for Dariye’s salary to be withheld pending the outcome of the case in court but the National Assembly Commission had no such powers to stop it.

He said:

“The procedure of the National Assembly is that a person’s seat must be declared vacant before he is no longer a senator. Based on the latest information we have, they said he had taken the matter to the Supreme Court.

“On our own, we have no power to stop the salary or allowances of any senator whose seat has not been declared vacant. Our intention was that his pay would be put on hold pending the outcome of the case but do we even have such powers?

“He remains a senator in the eyes of the law. It is not a matter of morality now but a matter of law. The power to declare any seat vacant resides in the Senate President or the Speaker.”

https://lailasnews.com/senate-pays-n85-5million-as-dariye-allowances-in-prison

Cc: thebosstrevor

so rich man go get sentence and him go appeal, and poor man sentence na final.

I hail Nigeria my country

Let me sing that Michael Jackson song : speechless speechless .......
I am speechless. Case as not close until it pass supreme court. There is God o

The only reason something like this saw the light of day is because they know it could be any of them tomorrow. Poly-thief-cians.

Richard5555:
See post bellow interesting ���

I still wonder why someone would have even common sure 3 odds and still want people to "buy" odds from them, why not just sell your family house use the money from it to play the sure odds and win scatter.

docadams:
Saraki house of confused corruption. Senate was quick to pay the salary of a convicted felon but unable to pay the emoluments of its support staff. Senate has no power to declare his seat vacant and as such cannot stop his salary. Born fools! So, where did Saraki derive the power to stop Senator Omo-Agege's salary?
Saraki has no benevolence or charity in his soul. He must be having a cut of the pie
Saraki, the face of corruption

it too early to start commenting nonsense

Only in Nigeria esp under d senate lidaship of bukola saraki

Slazim:

I still wonder why someone would have even common sure 3 odds and still want people to "buy" odds from them, why not just sell your family house use the money from it to play the sure odds and win scatter.

that is to tell u that Fraudulent are everywhere

The system needs total restructuring

docadams:
Saraki house of confused corruption. Senate was quick to pay the salary of a convicted felon but unable to pay the emoluments of its support staff. Senate has no power to declare his seat vacant and as such cannot stop his salary. Born fools! So, where did Saraki derive the power to stop Senator Omo-Agege's salary?
Saraki has no benevolence or charity in his soul. He must be having a cut of the pie
Saraki, the face of corruption

Why didn't the AGF notify the senate of his conviction, why is INEC still unable to conduct bye-election to fill the void, those are the question u should ask and not to join issues with a total different case.

Nbote:
Our judicial system is quite flawed and our lawyers are having a field day exploiting those flaws by delaying court processes and proceedings.. Watch how ZonBs who can't read or understand will rush in to scream blue murder on d National Assembly

Ignorance...

This is the lesgiative fault.
In a sane country, SARAKI SHOULD BE MADE TO RESIGN.

ONLY increase in fuel taxes caused several days of protest in France and the government was forced to reverse their decision.

This shithole is shame.

S/o to nigeria

igwefivestar:
Why didn't the AGF notify the senate of his conviction, why is INEC still unable to conduct bye-election to fill the void, those are the question u should ask and not to join issues with a total different case.

Who informed or directed Saraki to stop Omo-Agege from being paid salary and continued to be denied salary despite a directive of the court to pay him.

Most times, it's corrupt minds that create the flaws. There is no perfect system anywhere. When AG didn't write you to inform you what to do, why didn't you write AG to seek advise. Soon people will start blowing grammar analyzing the issue on TVs and of course it will pass. It's the same legislative aides that process all this and still don't know what to do except to occasionally line up to attract attention. Some day, the people at the receiving end will wake up and realize that truly power to enforce change is in their hands.

docadams:


Who informed or directed Saraki to stop Omo-Agege from being paid salary and continued to be denied salary despite a directive of the court to pay him.

because he breached senate rule and his seat was declared vacant.

igwefivestar:
because he breached senate rule and his seat was declared vacant.

Which rule was broken?

docadams:


Which rule was broken?

he defected with labour party mandate to APC when there is no division in labour party

igwefivestar:
he defected with labour party mandate to APC when there is no division in labour party

See you. Saraki crossing over to PDP is called what? Infection?

hmmmm, if it were a civil servant, he or she would have been sacked and salaries and all entitlements stopped, those members are thieves.

docadams:


See you. Saraki crossing over to PDP is called what? Infection?

u see, u were deceived because u don't knw the constitution. Our Constitution allow any elected officer to defect when there is division. The time saraki and co defect, there is division in APC. RAPC is a faction inside APC.

vastolord4:
Just look at the nonsense I'm seeing this early morning. . There was a country called nigeria

Which country? You drink? Nigerian na country for your eyes �

igwefivestar:
u see, u were deceived because u don't knw the constitution. Our Constitution allow any elected officer to defect when there is division. The time saraki and co defect, there is division in APC. RAPC is a faction inside APC.

Whoever that interpreted that part of the constitution for you must be an ITI. He didn't tell you the conditions for fractionalization wasn't met.

docadams:


Whoever that interpreted that part of the constitution for you must be an ITI. He didn't tell you the conditions for fractionalization wasn't met.

no they didn't, u can seize this occasion and highlight me on that.

igwefivestar:
no they didn't, u can seize this occasion and highlight me on that.

Hmmm, Google is our amiable friend. I'll state 2 conditions - exco must be split, duplicate Secretariat