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The Deputy Speaker, apparently reading a prepared script waved all the shouts of point of ‘order’ by opposition lawmakers as APC lawmakers started shouting carried as the Deputy Speaker reads out the clauses.
All attempts by Hon Sergius Ogun to convince PIB chairman committee Hon Tahir Monguno fell on deaf ears as the shouts of point of order ‘order’ and carried rent the air.
A further probe into the matter, revealed 30 percent was inserted for frontier states for exploration and additional 10 percent while oil host communities got 5 percent actually led to the hushed consideration and adoption approach.
The source also explained that”what this has translated to is that a section of the country without oil has 40 percent while communities that have oil may eventually get a meagre 5 percent, what an irony.
“Their position is that the South South has NDDC, Amnesty Program and 13 percent derivation, if you add all these together is not up to 40 percent so technically they benefit more than those that have oil in their domain
“The truth is that many of us only saw copies of the report after it has been considered and adopted before its passage, it’s sad because before now we see reports 24 hours before its considered but in this case nobody saw anything.
“They collected dollars to mortgage their conscience both southern and northern lawmakers except for a few who turned it down because they are from the region most affected.
All attempts to reach the House of Representatives spokesman, Hon Ben Kalu and his Senate counterpart, Basiru Ajibola proved abortive as both did not respond to calls and text messages sent to them to react on the allegation.
A group under the aegis of iYouths and Leadership Initiative have
berated the Senate for shoddiness in the clearance of the Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC) who presented questionable certificates.
The group also blamed the Department of State Security Services for lack of due diligence in their screening of the FCC chairman.
The body alleged that her present name is not consistent with all her other documents.
They alleged the Senate confirmation of the appointment of Muheebat Dankaka was without consideration of the fact that she presented false information on her bio-data to the Senate.
The group said withholding of vital information remained an offence to the law and the gloss over by security agencies on all relevant documents is counter productive
They demanded thorough examination for the benefit of all Nigerians, especially, as the credibility of the office of the federal character Commission touched on all appointments.
Reps move to ensure no Nigerian president, gov, lawmakers defect without losing seat
The Representatives also introduced a bill seeking to abolish the practice of organising a bye-election into vacant positions left open either as a result of death of the occupant or resignation.
Also read for the first time was a bill to expunge subsection (5) of section 315 of the constitution on the ground that it has outlived its usefulness in the face of the National Security Agencies Act.
The bills are being promoted by Hon. Rimamnde Kwewum Shawulu (PDP, Taraba), who said “the amendment proposed here is to delete and/or completely expunge the provision of subsection (5) of section 315 CFRN as same has outlived its usefulness and serves no better purpose in relation to present day realties.
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