An individual from the House of Representatives, Ben Igbakpa, has requested that President Muhammadu Buhari name the legislator whom he asserted is answerable for supporting crooks in the country.
The legislator was responding to the President’s Independence Day discourse where he said that an individual from the National Assembly is among the high-profile people supporting the heads of secessionist bunches in the country.
The President, in any case, didn’t uncover the personality of the legislator, neither did he say if the individual is an individual from the House of Representatives or Senate.
“The new captures of Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Adeyemo, and the continuous examinations being led have uncovered certain high-profile lenders behind these people.
“We are overwhelmingly seeking after these lenders, including one recognized as a serving individual from the National Assembly”, the President said in his transmission to the country to honor Nigeria’s 61st autonomy commemoration.
In response, Hon Igbakpa communicated worry that his advantage as a legislator has been penetrated by the President’s assertion and he is currently being viewed as a suspect any place he goes.
He said, “As announced by media houses across the world, President Buhari in his Independence Day discourse, told the world that one of us is supporting illegal intimidation.
“IPOB by what today’s to the substance of the law is a fear based oppressor association in any event, when we have our reservations in light of the fact that the rules that everyone must follow and courts have spoken. Mr. Speaker that implies that 469 individuals from this National Assembly are wrongdoing suspects”.
He further expressed that he was confined on charges of doubt when he went to a wedding in Ghana throughout the end of the week.
“On that pivotal day, I went to Akure, to be essential for the internment service of our kindred partner, Hon. Costly. On Saturday I needed to respect a solicitation to Ghana for a wedding, Mr. Speaker it will stun you what I looked because of Ghanaian authorities.
“They kept me for around four hours, that they are attempting to affirm something, I remained at the air terminal for four hours, missed the wedding I went for and toward the day’s end one of them approached me saying sorry sir there’s a declaration in Nigeria that an individual from parliament is supporting illegal intimidation and we are put watching out for potential threats to guarantee that no individual from parliament comes here to stow away or raise a ruckus.
“I needed to return home sad. They have been bringing me everywhere, my companions have been telling me, who among you is that individual is supporting illegal intimidation”.
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The rep part accentuated the requirement for the President to name the legislator and engaged summon segment 28 of the 1999 Constitution.
“The best thing for a dad to do is to name and disgrace any youngster that is achieving division. Yet, Mr. President didn’t disgrace that individual or name them rather he named 469 individuals.
“We have consistently participated and Nigeria has a ton to manage, so I’m engaging, if not the best thing to do is to conjure segment 28 of the constitution they can let us know who among us is supporting psychological oppression.
“We all here are prime suspects. I offer that the authority of the House ought to liaise with their partners in the Senate to attempt to see the President so he can us who’s supporting psychological warfare among us.
He approached the President to feel free to arraign, convict the suspect.
The Speaker of the House, Gbajabiamila reacting to Hon. Ben said, “your advantage is noted and we will hit you up on that”.