House of Reps to decide on Bauchi House crisis after report

There are indications that the House of Representatives may decide the fate of the Bauchi State House of Assembly lawmakers on Thursday (today).

This is coming as the 12-man panel set up by the House of Representatives to look into the crisis rocking the Assembly concluded its three-day investigation.

Recall that the committee which was headed by Musa Sarkin Adar received complaints from aggrieved lawmakers and critical stakeholders on Monday.

It has left for Abuja to submit its findings to the National Assembly.

While speaking with newsmen yesterday at the Bauchi State House of Assembly after a visit to the chamber, Adar said 28 memorandums and oral testimonies were received during the three-day period.

He said the factions in the statehouse did well in cooperating with the committee members while they were being quizzed

The committee’s chairman, who refused to reveal the resolutions of the panel, stated that all reports and findings will be submitted to the leadership of the National Assembly, which set up the committee.

Meanwhile, the state police command also testified before the panel yesterday.

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Commissioner of Police Habu Sani Ahmadu and the DCP, Mohammed Yakubu, absolved the command of any complicity in the crisis rocking the assembly when they were grilled by the panel.

But a  group known as the All Progressives Youth Parliament in Bauchi (AYP),  at the panel, accused the police of harassing some members on the day of the inauguration.

The secretary of the group, Nasri Shigari, alleged that some members were harassed and teargassed at the inauguration.

He urged the committee to do justice.

Also, a coalition of progressive political parties (CPPP) appealed to the committee to dismiss any allegation of wrongdoing in the process of electing the speaker and the deputy speaker of the Assembly

 

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