11 Reps drag Dogara to court over new pro-Speaker rules
January 18, 2016.
Eleven members of the House of Representatives have dragged Speaker Yakubu Dogara, the House and its Clerk, Sani Omolori, before an Abuja High Court over the new standing orders of the lower legislative chamber of the National Assembly, considered to unduly favour the Speaker.
The House had on October 8, 2015, adopted the report of its ad-hoc committee to review the House Standing Orders, 2011, in which the speaker is vested with the powers to suspend any member that approaches the mace with whatever intent.
The newly adopted Standing Order also gave the Speaker powers to suspend a member for 30 plenary days for failing to obey the presiding officer’s directive for such a lawmaker to assume his seat during plenary.
January 18, 2016.
Eleven members of the House of Representatives have dragged Speaker Yakubu Dogara, the House and its Clerk, Sani Omolori, before an Abuja High Court over the new standing orders of the lower legislative chamber of the National Assembly, considered to unduly favour the Speaker.
The House had on October 8, 2015, adopted the report of its ad-hoc committee to review the House Standing Orders, 2011, in which the speaker is vested with the powers to suspend any member that approaches the mace with whatever intent.
The newly adopted Standing Order also gave the Speaker powers to suspend a member for 30 plenary days for failing to obey the presiding officer’s directive for such a lawmaker to assume his seat during plenary.
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