Bailiff pastes Saraki, Ekweremadu summons on Senate Notice Board
Wed Jun 22, 2016 07:42:am Politics
2.1K By Buchi Obichie
The court summons inviting the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, and two top Management Staff of NASS, to appear before the court for the alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Order, was pasted on the Senate Notice Board on Tuesday, by bailiffs from the FCT High Court, Abuja.
According to the summons, the 2 Principal officers of the Senate, alongside the outgoing Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa, and the Deputy Clerk, Benedict Efeturi, are to make themselves available for the case, on June 27.
The court order read: "By oral application, dated June 21, 2016, moved by D. E. Kaswe, Principal State Counsel, Federal Ministry of Justice, in this case praying the court for:
"An order of this Honourable Court granting leave to the complainant/applicant to serve the criminal summons on the defendants by substituted means to wit by pasting it at the Notice Board of the National Assembly, Three Arms Zone, Abuja.
"And after hearing D. E. Kaswe with A. A. Kaltingo Esq, counsel for the complainant/applicant moved the court orally for the above relief."
It was also observed that the handwritten statements of Maikasuwa and Efeturi as well as that of 13 other former senators, interrogated by the police, were also pasted along with the court summons.
In their own submissions to the police as contained in the document pasted to the board at the National Assembly, Maikasuwa and Efeturi denied being part of the alleged forgery of the document.
Maikashuwa said, "The Senate Standing Order used in Seventh Senate was not known to me. The Clerk of the Senate (Efeturi) is in position to know. I was not aware of the amendment that was made to the Standing rules."
Efeturi said, "The Senate Leadership handled the 2015 Standing Rules as amended by their convention and practice. Standing Orders 2003, 2007 and 2011 followed similar practice."
The court summons were later removed from the Notice Board by some Sergeant-at-Arms.
According to the summons, the 2 Principal officers of the Senate, alongside the outgoing Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa, and the Deputy Clerk, Benedict Efeturi, are to make themselves available for the case, on June 27.
The court order read: "By oral application, dated June 21, 2016, moved by D. E. Kaswe, Principal State Counsel, Federal Ministry of Justice, in this case praying the court for:
"An order of this Honourable Court granting leave to the complainant/applicant to serve the criminal summons on the defendants by substituted means to wit by pasting it at the Notice Board of the National Assembly, Three Arms Zone, Abuja.
"And after hearing D. E. Kaswe with A. A. Kaltingo Esq, counsel for the complainant/applicant moved the court orally for the above relief."
It was also observed that the handwritten statements of Maikasuwa and Efeturi as well as that of 13 other former senators, interrogated by the police, were also pasted along with the court summons.
In their own submissions to the police as contained in the document pasted to the board at the National Assembly, Maikasuwa and Efeturi denied being part of the alleged forgery of the document.
Maikashuwa said, "The Senate Standing Order used in Seventh Senate was not known to me. The Clerk of the Senate (Efeturi) is in position to know. I was not aware of the amendment that was made to the Standing rules."
Efeturi said, "The Senate Leadership handled the 2015 Standing Rules as amended by their convention and practice. Standing Orders 2003, 2007 and 2011 followed similar practice."
The court summons were later removed from the Notice Board by some Sergeant-at-Arms.
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