According to The Punch, the report confirms that the standing rules used to inaugurate the eighth Assembly and elect Senate president Senator Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on June 9, 2015, were forged. The police recommend the prosecution of the individuals responsible .
The Punch source says the report indicts the National Assembly management, including the clerk, Salisu Maikasuwa.
On July 6, acting on a petition by Senator Sulaiman Hunkuyi (Kaduna State chapter of the APC), the police questioned Ekweremadu and Maikasuwa over the alleged forgery of Standing Orders. the former Senate president, Senator David Mark, the former Senate leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, and the former chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang, were also questioned.
The petition alleges that some parts of the 2015 Senate orders differ from the ones ratified by the sixth Senate in 2010 and used by the seventh Senate as Standing Orders in 2011.
According to The Punch’s anonymous source, the inspector-general of police gave President Buhari a copy of the investigative report last Sunday. However, a police PR officer could not confirm if the president had indeed received the copy, saying only the investigation into the case is still in progress.
Senior legal practitioners consulted by The Punch have explained that a criminal offence against the state of forging documents like the Standing Rules of the Senate could result in a penalty of three years in jail, a fine, or both, for the individuals responsible.
Read the whole report by The Punch.
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