Senate President , Bukola Saraki on
Tuesday briefly presided over the plenary session of the house before
leaving to attend his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT)
sitting in Abuja.
He came into the chambers at 10.48am and the session took off with the opening prayer.
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, took over from Saraki when he left the seat.
During the session, the controversy trailing a supposed bill to create a Grazing Reserve commission for cattle breeders in the country was raised by the Senator representing Abia South Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe..
Abaribe, said to the best of his knowledge, there is no such bill by the name before the Senate.
Senator Abaribe who came under personal explanation, told his colleagues that he was bombarded with phone calls and text messages at the weekend by his constituents who wanted to know how the bill scaled second reading in the Senate.
He noted that his explanation to those who called him that there was no such bill before the Senate was discountenanced and dismissed as information coming from an absentee Senator.
Abaribe recalled that the last time the Grazing Reserve Commission Bill came to the Senate was in the 7th Senate when Senator Zainab Kure who is no longer in the upper chamber proposed the bill.
He said the bill sponsored by Senator Kure (PDP Niger South) failed to fly as it was roundly rejected.
“When I asked where is this information coming from, they said the information is coming from the social media.
“Mr. President, the reason I’m making this personal explanation is so that my constituents in Abia South, will know that there is no such Bill called Grazing Reserve Commission Bill before this Senate.
“I have taken time to ask the clerk and every other person to say where is this bill that has passed second reading. How did it passed second reading in my absence and they said they also are in confusion, they have never seen such thing.
“So I would like the Chairman of Committee on Rules and Business to tell this Distinguished Senate whether he passed the bill in our absence when we are not all sitting here and it went through second reading before it got here. That is all I have to say over this, Mr. President.”
Responding, Saraki, told Abaribe that his information is noted.
Via TheNation
He came into the chambers at 10.48am and the session took off with the opening prayer.
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, took over from Saraki when he left the seat.
During the session, the controversy trailing a supposed bill to create a Grazing Reserve commission for cattle breeders in the country was raised by the Senator representing Abia South Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe..
Abaribe, said to the best of his knowledge, there is no such bill by the name before the Senate.
Senator Abaribe who came under personal explanation, told his colleagues that he was bombarded with phone calls and text messages at the weekend by his constituents who wanted to know how the bill scaled second reading in the Senate.
He noted that his explanation to those who called him that there was no such bill before the Senate was discountenanced and dismissed as information coming from an absentee Senator.
Abaribe recalled that the last time the Grazing Reserve Commission Bill came to the Senate was in the 7th Senate when Senator Zainab Kure who is no longer in the upper chamber proposed the bill.
He said the bill sponsored by Senator Kure (PDP Niger South) failed to fly as it was roundly rejected.
“When I asked where is this information coming from, they said the information is coming from the social media.
“Mr. President, the reason I’m making this personal explanation is so that my constituents in Abia South, will know that there is no such Bill called Grazing Reserve Commission Bill before this Senate.
“I have taken time to ask the clerk and every other person to say where is this bill that has passed second reading. How did it passed second reading in my absence and they said they also are in confusion, they have never seen such thing.
“So I would like the Chairman of Committee on Rules and Business to tell this Distinguished Senate whether he passed the bill in our absence when we are not all sitting here and it went through second reading before it got here. That is all I have to say over this, Mr. President.”
Responding, Saraki, told Abaribe that his information is noted.
Via TheNation
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