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The lawmaker had claimed that he sought the services of a private auditor to review the budget and discovered some projects that did not have locations. The upper legislative chamber is currently on Easter and Eid-el-Fitri holiday and will reconvene on 16 April. “This is a breach of Section 111 of the Constitution and Article 13 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights Act.
“As a senior lawyer, you ought to have drawn the attention of the members of the Senate to these decisions and several others where the high courts of some states and the Court of Appeal have held that no parliament in Nigeria has the power to suspend or expel a legislator and confiscate his salaries and allowances.
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