BREAKING: Nigerian Senate moves to strip President, Governors, their deputies of immunity
This is part of the amendment being proposed for the 1999 Constitution by the Senate.An indication followed the second reading of a Bill titled: “A Bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to qualify criminal liability for certain public officers under Section 308”.
The bill provides that a President, Vice President, Governors and Deputy Governors shall lose their immunity if they are investigated by security and anti-graft agencies, including the courts. It further reads: “Section 308 of the Principal Act is altered by Substituting for subsection , a new subsection “” –“ to civil proceedings against a person to whom this section applies in his official capacity or to civil or criminal proceedings in which such a person is only a nominal party; and
“ to persons who hold the office of Vice-President, Governor or Deputy Governor, if it is determined either by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Nigerian Police and State Security Service through a collaborative investigation that the said person is indicted by a court of competent jurisdiction for:“ Sponsoring of thugs to perpetrate violence that cause injury or death of political opponent, a member of his family, agent or personal...
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