By; BENEDICT SUNDAY, Kaduna
The Nigerian Senate has set up a committee toinvestigate the circumstances that led to the disruption and violence during the empowerment programme organised by Senator Ahmed Ogembe and the police involvement in the dispute.
The committee was setup during plenary on Wednesday, March 7, after Senator Ahmed Ogembe alleged that the empowerment programme he is sponsoring was disrupted.
The senator who stated that the disruption caused violence in Kogi central said he cannot go home because he was unsure of his safety.
Other lawmakers condemned the alleged attack on the senator, and described the situation between the governor and the senators from Kogi state as worrisome.
The lawmakers accused the Kogi state governor of abusing his office and noted that such conduct was not democratic.
Speaking on the issue, Senate president Bukola Saraki said what happened to Senator Ogembe was unfortunate.
“It’s not really just about Kogi State, but it is clear from what we are seeing that Kogi State is coming to the point where it is a threat to our democracy and it cannot be seen to define our democracy because this is not what our democracy is about.
”We must be seen to be making examples to other parts of the world. We must take actions that will prevent this kind of incidents from happening.
”We are almost 20years into democracy and this cannot be the democracy that we should be talking about after 20years and its totally unacceptable.
It’s not only in Kogi State, we saw the cases in Kaduna state, how can a Governor proudly say he is going to bulldoze a house in Nigeria at this time and we are all keeping quiet.
