{"id":906,"date":"2017-11-23T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:52:32","slug":"senate-blasts-president-buhari-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/23\/senate-blasts-president-buhari-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Blasts President Buhari Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigerian Senate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Senate was put into confusion on Wednesday when a lawmaker Identified as\u00a0 Biodun Olujimi, accused President Muhammadu Buhari of losing authority on his administration.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Olujimi, PDP-Ekiti, was responding to a motion on the face-off between Nigeria\u2019s security agencies raised by Dino Melaye, Kogi-APC.<\/p>\n

Officials of the State Security Services, SSS, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were involved in a showdown on Tuesday when EFCC operatives attempted to arrest the immediate past Director-General of the SSS, Ekpenyong Ita.<\/p>\n

A similar scenario also played out when SSS operatives prevented the anti-graft agency from arresting the former Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke.<\/p>\n

Presenting the motion, Mr. Melaye called on the Senate to take an urgent action on the incidents he described as \u201crecipe for national disaster\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. President, the media and the social media, print and electronics have been awash with a disaster that took place yesterday. The EFCC went to the residence of the former Director General of the SSS, Ita Ekpeyong, to effect an arrest and the Directorate of State Security stopped the EFCC from arresting him. That created environmental brouhaha. The whole environment and neighbours were stopped from lawfully gaining entrance into their homes because of this confusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cSame yesterday, the EFCC wanted to arrest the former DG NIA, Mr. Oke. Also, the officers of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency stopped that arrest. We are not here to say who is at blame. We have been embarrassed before the international community. That two sister agencies will engage in fisticuffs, arrest and stoppage of arrests. Mr. President, this is a recipe for national disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on Mr. Melaye\u2019s motion, Mrs. Olujimi said President Buhari had lost his authority as \u2018nobody\u2019 was in charge of the current administration. \u201cRight now, we have a situation whereby nobody is in charge of anything and we cannot honestly blame anyone for what is happening. The truth is that you cannot go to the house of a security agent, a man who had kept the secrets of Nigeria for so long, and just try to arrest him like chicken.\u00a0\u201cMr. President, there has to be someone that we can hold responsible when two brothers are fighting. The person that is supposed to be held responsible has not done anything, is not doing his work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ll see gross irresponsibility in government whereby there is no arbiter. No one to come in between two agencies that belong to only one person. The two agencies report to one person, the presidency and now we find them fighting on the pages of the newspapers, it\u2019s a shame. We are calling on the President, he has to sit up, he should be up and doing. Call these people to order.\u201d
\nShe questioned the president on why a new nominee for the position of Chairman of EFCC has not been sent to the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. President, you will remember that we rejected Mr. Magu as Chairman of EFCC and up till today nothing has been said about it. The Senate is divided. Nobody has come out to say we need to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all, there are 170 million Nigerians, all of a sudden, we are saying only one person can do this job. Mr. President, something has to be done, the presidency has to be called to order. Nobody is in charge of this government. Nobody is in charge and somebody needs to be in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Olujinmi\u2019s statement threw the house into a rowdy session as senators on both the ruling and opposition raised their voices to defend their own.<\/p>\n

Leader of the Senate, in response cautioned Mrs. Olujimi against making such statements, noting that President Buhari is in \u201cfull control of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when Mr. President was away to attend to his health, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, was in full control.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe statement by our colleague is unacceptable. It\u2019s not right, it is wrong,\u201d he said amidst a roar of \u2018Yes\u2019 from senators who raised their voices in support.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy opinion about what happened is that, could it be that EFCC did not get the right kind of document to arrest those people?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they did, then the security agencies are wrong. Only the investigation would reveal this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senate resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the clashes involving the SSS, EFCC, and NIA over the arrest of Messrs. Oke and Ekpeyong and to report its findings in two weeks.<\/p>\n

Source: ( Punch Newspaper )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate was put into confusion on Wednesday when a lawmaker Identified as  Biodun Olujimi, accused President Muhammadu Buhari of losing authority on his administration. Mrs. Olujimi, PDP-Ekiti, was responding to a motion on the face-off between Nigeria’s security agencies raised by Dino Melaye, Kogi-APC. Officials of the State Security Services, SSS, and the Economic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,131],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-buhari","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}