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Ali’s Uniform and Senate of Misplaced Priority -By Bamidele Williams

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Hameed Ali

 

Without beating around the bush. Without prevaricating on the topic at hand, it is so evident that the present Senate are on a revenge mission even with all its cloth of sanctimoniousness.

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Almost everyone of them at the red chamber has one case or the other with EFCC and at least six of them has their vehicles impounded by the Custom on issues relating to duties. The unraveled Saraki SUV case is a typical example.

Ali raised a point of law. Femi Falana also gave a comprehensive legal opinion on the matter. The attorney general of the federation is the foremost law officer in the land and his legal opinion should be taken seriously. Falana averred that Ali has not disobeyed any law by his refusal to wear uniform.
The Senate should seek legal advice too, instead of allowing ego and fraudulent populism determine their actions in their sheer mission of revenge.

The Nigerian Senate occasionally overreach their constitutional mandate due to inexperience and vindictiveness. Shouldn’t they back down now that the impounded car has probably exposed the reasons for their obstinacy?

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Something urgent and amicable has to be done on this issue. How could the issue of Uniform be the point of discussion while the Issue of hunger, insecurity, poverty, economic downturn and heartless butchering of innocent souls especially in north central is neglected. It is highly pathetic.

The comptroller general is an appointee of the president. The senate is arrogating to itself powers it doesn’t have, thereby encroaching on the executive purview. The disunity in the Senate interpretation of the constitution is palpable.

This Senate has become so drunk with power that they forget that the Constitution of the Federal Republic does not grant them the power to combine legislative and executive duties. They are continually overstepping their legal bounds because they arrogate to themselves limitless powers which they ignorantly or overzealously think includes the power to sack executive appointees. Their overzealousness even on issues they have no power to adjudicate upon is making a complete mess of the separation of responsibilities as enshrined in the nation’s constitution.

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I so submit, like I pointed out earlier, let the Senate stop making herself a laughing stock. There are more reasonable pressing issues in the country to address.

Bamidele Williams
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Bamidele Williams is a journalist and a public affairs Analyst.

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