Nasarawa: Soldiers deployed in Govt House, Assembly
Armed soldiers have been deployed in strategic parts of Nasarawa State
following protests against alleged plot by members of the state House of
Assembly to impeach Governor Tanko Al-Makura.
Saturday PUNCH correspondent, who went round Lafia, the state capital,
saw armed military personnel stationed at the Assembly Complex, the
Government House and other strategic places.
This is happening as the governor said he has yet to receive any impeachment notice from the House of Assembly.
The lawmakers, who began the process to remove the governor on Monday,
published a notice of impeachment in some national newspapers on
Wednesday when they could not access the governor to serve him the
impeachment notice
Al-Makura, who spoke through his Special
Assistance on Public Affairs, Abdullamid Kwara, said the governor had
yet to receive the impeachment notice.
To the state Chairman of
the All Progressives Congress, Philip Shekwo, the manner in which the
impeachment notice was served was not constitutional.
Shekwo
said, “As far as the party is concerned, we have not received any
impeachment notice as was claimed by the lawmakers. They have
alternative means of serving the notice, but it is not how it is stated
in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
However, the state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Yunna
Iliya, told Saturday PUNCH that he could not comment on the issue until
after two weeks because the constitution stipulated that if the governor
did not respond within two weeks, the law would take its course.
However, a member of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Othman Bala
representing Keffi-East called on his colleagues to withdraw the
impeachment notice.
Bala, who spoke to our correspondent in
Lafia, said, “Looking at the state of insecurity confronting the
country, the legislators should put the interest of the people above any
other thing.
“The lawmakers love the state and will do
everything their power to ensure peace. It is on the basis of this that I
appeal to my colleagues to sheathe their swords in order to move the
state forward.
“No one is perfect; we should forgive some of
the lapses noticed with the governor with the belief that he would learn
from them in the overall interest of the state.”
Meanwhile,
the Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on Friday
denied that people were killed during the clash between the Eggon and
Gwandara people on Thursday.
Idris, who briefed journalists
shortly after a joint security committee meeting comprising the police,
army, the State Security Service, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence
Corps in Lafia, however, said 20 persons were arrested during the clash.
Stressing that one house and vehicle were vandalised during the
violence, he disclosed that a retired police officer was arrested in
connection with the crisis.
The police commissioner said, “Two
people were injured and one of them sustained laceration in his stomach.
He was taken to Agu private hospital by the military and discharged
immediately after treatment.
“The second injured person was taken to M and D Clinic and also treated.”
Normalcy has, however, started returning to Lafia, Mararaba and Keffi, the town hit by protests on Wednesday and Thursday.
Business activities have also resumed in the towns as people were seen going about their activities
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Nasarawa: Soldiers deployed in Govt House, Assembly
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