Jonathan has committed impeachable offence -Rep (Not anymore impeachable than your jumbo salary)

Posted by admin House, Legislature Friday, January 6th, 2012

A member of the House of Representatives, Monsur Alao Owolabi, has described President Goodluck Jonathan’s removal of fuel subsidy as an impeachable offence.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Sun in Lagos, Owolabi who represents Mainland Federal Constituency hinged this on the fact that the president did the withdrawal illegally.
Said he: “It is a big fraud. We have not discussed it at the National Assembly, how can you jump from your bed and remove the subsidy. We mentioned it, but we did not discuss it at all. It is an impeachable offence. Everybody knows that.”

The angry lawmaker stressed that he was particularly piqued by the development in view of the grave implications for the polity.
“The way this man (Jonathan) is going, I think he wants to cause anarchy in the country. He really wants to cause anarchy. We are still operating 2011 budget and there is fuel subsidy in that budget. By end of March, we will start operating 2012 budget. Why did he remove subsidy now,” he queried.
Continuing, Owolabi who was elected on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), stressed that the matter will top the agenda of the federal lawmakers when they resume soon, stressing, even PDP lawmakers will pick up the gauntlet on the matter.
“They (PDP lawmakers) reason. They are no fools. There are intellectuals among them. We are the representatives of the common people. What happen to them also happen to us,” he declared.

According to him, there was also the corruption angle regarding the latest development, saying questions needed to be asked about what happens to the fuel subsidy for the months of January, February and March 2012, already captured in the 2011 budget.
This, he reasoned has made it imperative for federal lawmakers to tackle the authorities over the matter to lay it to rest.
Said he: “We will resist it, if heaven wants to fall, let it fall because the problem will come back to us.”
He lamented that, instead of government to look at issues of corruption bedeviling the petroleum sector by righting the wrongs, it was merely chasing shadows.

Specifically, Owolabi stressed that if the Federal Government is serious, it ought to look at measures that could bring back refineries to make Nigeria refine locally and for export.
“People are feeding fat on this. We have to be careful that this thing does not cause trouble,” he said.
The ACN chieftain stressed that Federal Government should be careful in handling sensitive issues in order to halt chaos in the land.
“We must be careful in this country, because we are sitting on a keg of gun powder, and this thing can explode anytime, any day,” he warned.

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