Some Senators have called for the impeachment of President Muhammadu
\nBuhari over the purchase of the $496m super Tucano fighter jets.<\/p>\n
The Senators during plenary\u00a0on Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0asked Senate President Bukola In a motion moved by the Chairman Senate Committee on Public Account, \u201cThe procedure of the expenditure is wrong. There ought to be an \u201cI hereby request that the Senate President should invoke Section 18 of Mr Urhogide cites Orders 15, 42 & 52, says this matter should be forwarded \u201cThe President\u2019s request is wrong, it\u2019s a violation of our process, Senators Chukwuka Utazi and Sam Anyanwu also backed Senator Urhogide on According to Senator Utazi \u201cI rise to second this motion with Section 80 \u201dThese Tucano helicopters are to be brought in 2020, why include it now in \u201cThis is an impeachable offence.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Senator Abu Ibrahim has disagreed with the call for the But the other Senators are of the opinion that Section 143 deals with the The purchase of the Tucano aircraft raised many concerns to Nigerians as To this move, the Senate has directed its Committee on Judiciary to find The Senate asked the committee to report back its findings on Wednesday, Some Senators have called for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari over the purchase of the $496m super Tucano fighter jets. The Senators during plenary\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0asked Senate President Bukola Saraki…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nSaraki to invoke Section 143 of the constitution in view of President
\nBuhari\u2019s approval of the extra-budgetary spending of 496 million dollars
\nto purchase the aircraft.<\/p>\n
\nSenator Mathew Urhogide, is of the opinion that \u201cIt\u2019s a violation of
\nSection 80 subsection 1, 2, 3, 4.<\/p>\n
\nappropriation before such expenditure.<\/p>\n
\nthe Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nto the appropriate committee.<\/p>\n
\nproceedings and the 1999 Constitution (as amended)\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nthe call for Buhari\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n
\nsubsection 2 and 3. We are still on the appropriation bill, we have not
\nfinished it, Service chiefs were appointed without the approval of the
\nSenate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nappropriation.<\/p>\n
\nPresident\u2019s impeachment arguing that since the establishment of the excess
\ncrude account, no government has ever sent a formal request to the
\nNational Assembly for approval for appropriation of funds.<\/p>\n
\nimpeachment of the President.<\/p>\n
\nthe House of Representatives was in a rowdy session over the presidential
\nrequest to include the $496million fund for the purchase in the 2018
\nAppropriation Bill before the National Assembly.<\/p>\n
\nout if any infraction was committed by President Buhari in his approval
\nand direction for the release of the funds for the purchase of the
\naircraft.<\/p>\n
\nMay 3rd.<\/p>\n