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Zamfara Assembly Suspends Lawmakers ‘for Working With Bandits’
The Zamfara state Home of Meeting has suspended two lawmakers over their alleged ties to bandits.
The lawmakers – Yusuf Muhammad, Anka representing Anka Constituency, and Ibrahim T. Tukur Bakura, representing Bakura constituency – had been suspended for 3 months.
In accordance with the Director Basic Press Affairs and Public Relations of the Meeting, Mustapha Jafaru Kaura, the lawmakers will keep off the meeting pending the conclusion of investigations on the allegation leveled towards them.
“They’re additionally to look earlier than the Home Committee on ethics and privileges together with safety businesses which might be assigned by regulation to research them.”
“These are a part of the resolutions reached simply now on the Home plenary presided over the speaker of the Home Rt Hon Nasiru Mu’azu Magarya underneath issues of pressing public significance,” Kaura stated.
Main the talk on the matter shortly after every member swore an oath, member representing Maru North, Hon Yusuf Alhassan Kanoma, drew the eye of his colleagues to the “burning subject” within the Home.
He stated the home shouldn’t fold its arms over the intense allegations leveled towards the 2 members.
Kanoma additional alleged that throughout the kidnap saga of the daddy of speaker late Alhaji Mu’azu Abubakar Magarya specifically Yusuf Muhammad Anka and Ibrahim T Tukur Bakura had been stated to have been jubilating over the difficulty.
Extra allegations towards suspended lawmakers
He additionally alleged that the 2 lawmakers had been behind the killing of late Hon Muhammad G. Ahmad ( Walin Jangeru), a former member who represented Shinkafi constituency within the state Home of Meeting.
He claimed they leaked info via which bandits tracked the deceased.
He requested safety businesses to totally monitor all their phone strains and take heed to all their conversations.
Additionally contributing, member representing Birnin Magaji constituency, Hon Nura Dahiru Sabon birnin Dan Ali, concurred along with his colleague, saying efforts to barter with infamous bandit, Bello Turji, on so many events to safe the discharge of late speaker’s father, shouldn’t go in useless.
In his ruling on the matter, the speaker, Rt Hon Nasiru Mu’azu Magarya, accredited the outright suspension of the 2 members.
Speaker Magarya additionally directed chairman Home Committee on ethics and privileges, Hon Kabiru Hashimu Dansadau, to totally examine these members and report its findings again to the plenary.
Whereas expressing his dismay over their alleged involvement in banditry actions, the state chief lawmaker additionally stripped them of the chairmanship of the Home standing committees.
The suspended lawmakers couldn’t be reached for remark on the time of submitting this report.
