Jigawa assembly suspends member ‘for attacking governor’s convoy’
The Jigawa State House of Assembly on Friday suspended the member representing Gumel constituency, Sani Isyaku, indefinitely for alleged thuggery.PREMIUM TIMES could not get the lawmaker to react as his known telephone number was not connecting as at the time the report was filed.
The speaker said the suspended lawmaker allegedly ‘connived’ with some politicians and political thugs, and ‘distracted’ the convoy of the state governor Muhammad Badaru while in Hadejia local government area. “Mr Isyaku is suspended over his said act of involvement in a misconduct which is unfortunate for him as a lawmaker.
The house also constituted a committee to investigate the ‘financial expenditure’ of the suspended member Sani Isyaku while he was a majority leader.He said the decision of the house to investigate the suspended member is a “betrayal of trust and this shouldn’t have come when the interest of one person is affected.”“The action of the lawmakers showed that they are rubber stamp legislators executing the bidding of the state governor, not of those that elected them,” he said.
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