As the Nigerian Senate are gearing up to resume plenary at
the National Assembly Abuja, the Progressives Caucus of the House of
Representatives has blasted the Senate President and his Deputy.
Some members of the House of Representatives under the aegis of
Progressives Caucus, have berated the Senate President, Senator Bukola
Saraki for criticising the Federal Government over the proscription of
the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
The lawmakers described the statement credited to the Senate President as “shocking beyond belief.”
Saraki had on Monday faulted the decision of the Nigerian Army to proscribe IPOB.
But in a statement signed by three members of the House of
Representatives – Aiyu Madaki, Sani Zorro and Mohammed Soba – the caucus
also berated Saraki’s deputy, Ike Ekweremadu for showing support to the
separatist group and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
The statement reads, “We were shocked beyond belief when our
attention was brought to the statement credited to the Senate President,
Abubakar Saraki in which he willy-nilly endorsed the murderous
activities of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), based
on arguments that are bereft of reason, rationality or logic.
“In fact, a clear pattern of overt support to the leader of the
terrorist group had since been established under the watch of the
Senate President, for some time now.
“In the past his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, had not only
hosted, but put the full paraphernalia of his office – bullet-proof
cars, uniformed policemen and operatives of the department of the state
security service (DSS), and full complement of his staff on our nation’s
payroll, to give solidarity and support to a secessionist leader facing
treason charges for levying war against Nigerians and the Nigerian
state.
“On another count, only a self-hating leader devoid of human
compassion could cover his eyes from the horror and bestiality being
meted to Nigerians not indigenous to the so-called Biafra enclave over
these past years, but will be excited at rushing to offer protection to
Nigeria’s misguided groups, while thumbing down our nation’s defence
forces that have continued to sacrifice their lives, so we may survive
as a nation under God.
“Is the senate president unaware of the more than 1,900
Internally Displaced Persons presently taking refuge at the Aba Central
Mosque, the more than 800 IDPs now sheltering in the Aba central police
station after the gruesome murder of its Divisional Police Officer and
his men?
“Is the Senate President not aware of the killing fields in
Sabon Fili where innocent sellers of fruits were subjected to the gory,
slow but painful deaths, or the killing of many and destruction of the
property of Northerners at Oyibo, in Rivers State?
“What has he said about the premeditated murder of 9 other
Nigerians of Northern extraction at Asaba, Delta State – all of which
have been in circulation especially in the social media, in the last few
days?
“It is indeed a tragedy of immense proportion if the Senate
President will close his eyes to these genocidal acts, and instead
attempt to incite an armed rebel group against state actors, just to
score cheap political points.
“At this juncture, it has become necessary to ask all
conscionable representatives of the Nigerian people, civil society
activities, labour and its social partners, to stand up and be counted,
by discharging their civic responsibility of exposing what is
undoubtedly another hot pursuit against the Roghinga’s of 21st century
Nigeria.”
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