Why we moved against Jonathan –Reps

Posted by admin House, Legislature Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

The Nigeria’s House of Representatives says its move to plot the impeachment of President
Goodluck Jonathan is not connected with Lawan’s controversial subsidy bribe scam nor
failure of government to award constituencies projects to members.

The Chairman of the House Committee on

Media and Public Affairs, Zakari Mohammed

gave the clarification in a statement issued in

Abuja on Monday.

The statement reads:

“Arising from Thursday’s 19th July 2012 plenary

which discussed extensively on the snail speed

implementation of the 2012, Appropriation Act,

by Mr President And the attendant ultimatum

issued, that if by 30th September 2012 when the

House resume from recess, there is no marked

improvement, The House would be left with no

choice than to initiative impeachment

proceedings.

“This bold and patriotic step by the Seventh

Assembly has attracted different comments from

a lot of quarters, expectedly, therefore some

sponsored news editorial and commentaries

choose to deliberately misinform the public on

the rationale behind our nationalistic stand.

“For the avoidance of doubt, whilst we are

aware that all revenue generating agencies

have surpassed their annual target by mid this

year, the House is worried that this positive

development did not reflect the implementation

of the budget for the benefit of the Nigerian

peoples.

“To insinuate that the House of Representatives took this noble step to satisfy pressure from
a political party or because the Constituency projects were not awarded to members or
because of the drama that followed the presentation of the fuel subsidy report, is to say the
least malicious damaging and uncharitable to the image of the Assembly.

“We in the Legislature are law makers and not Contractors and that the constituency projects
execution has been the exclusive preserves of the executive and its agencies, at no time has
there been any argument on this.

“Similarly what members do in the course of the budget preparation is to furnish the
respective MDAs with locations and area of needs of our constituencies. The bidding
Processes are handled by the supervising ministries.

“The entire 360 members in the House are bond by the Nigerian project, our independence
and objectiveness are evident in the selection of our principal officers which we did according
to our thoughts. To assume that we are guided by some forces outside the House of
Representatives is mischievous and a deliberate ploy to misrepresent the House before the
Nigerian public.

“The 7th Assembly has distanced itself from the Hon. Farouk and Otedota case as evident
in the bold steps, we took in suspending him as chairman of the both the committees on fuel
subsidy and education . In addition to encouraging the law enforcement agencies to do their
work according to the dictates of the law.

“ To now conclude that our resolution for Thursday is borne out of selfish motives is terribly
out of place.”
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