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The
outspoken senator representing Kogi west constituency at the national
assembly, has boldly said that the issue of immunity to political office
holders should be scrapped from the constitution.
Dino Melaye
While speaking to Osasu Igbinedion on The Osasu Show, the senator
representing Kogi west constituency at the national assembly, Dino
Melaye, has said no Nigerian including the president and governors,
should have immunity.
“As an individual, speaking as Dino Melaye, I do not support
immunity for any Nigerian irrespective of status or office. I am one of
those actually propagating that the immunity clause be completely
deleted in our constitution.
“The president should not have immunity, the vice president
should not have immunity, the governors should not have immunity, their
deputies should not have immunity.
“That would be a very very wonderful way of fighting
corruption, and also instituting fear in those who have been
indoctrinated with corrupt initiatives.
“I understand also, the frustration of my colleagues that are
asking for immunity clause for the senate president, and the speaker of
the house of representatives and their deputies.
“I understand their frustration, and their frustration is
coming from the fact that it is a deliberate effort to undermine and
also subject the institution of the National Assembly to become a
surrogate of the executive,” he said.
While speaking on the forgery case ‘unjustly’ levelled
against the senate president, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike
Ekweremadu, the lawmaker, said it is being orchestrated because of the
failure of the CCT trial against Saraki.
Dino Melaye and Osasu during the interview
“What the senate president is going through in the CCT from my
own myopic point of view, is not prosecution but persecution. We all
know that he’s suffering because he had ambition to become the senate
president and a man should not be punished for having ambition.
“Ambition is something every individual who wants to make
progress in life should have. In fact, our president is a very ambitious
person, that’s why he contested for the presidency of this country,
four different times.
“So it’s not a crime to be ambitious and Bukola Saraki should
not be punished for been ambitious. So the CCT trial, for as far as I’m
concerned is a persecution and the case is already falling like pack of
cards under cross examination and I want to believe it is because of the
failure of the CCT ongoing trial that an orchestration was made for the
forgery case in the High court.”
While speaking on the alleged screening of ministers with ‘forged’
rule book, Dino Melaye said the same rule book that is being regarded
as forged is the same that was used for screening ministers and passing
budget 2016.
“We are senators of the 8th Republic; the document (rule book)
we were given by the bureaucracy — 48 hours clear before our
inauguration — is the document we work with.
“And with that same document, we have received the president
into the national assembly twice. With that same document, we had a
joint section with the president in attendance, with the president of
South Africa.
“With that same document, we screened the ministers of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria; with that same document, we screened the
chairman of INEC; with that same document, we screened the DGs.”
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