Threaten to consider impeaching the President if he continues to ignore their recommendations. | By Iferi Etuk
The Senate has warned of consequences against President Goodluck Jonathan if he continued to ignore its resolutions.
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu said on Thursday that the President could only continue to set aside the resolutions of the Senate at the expense of ?good governance.?
The Senate?s position took a more dire tone with a warning from Uche Chukwumerije, representing Abia State, that he will move an impeachment motion against Jonathan if the trend continues.
The warnings came as the Senate considered a bill to amend the establishment of the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE).
The senators recalled a resolution of the Senate had called for the removal of the Director General of the office, Bola Onagoruwa, indicted by an inquiry into alleged abuses in the BPE.
?We recommended sanctions against key officials of the BPE but the president hasn?t done anything about it,? Chukwumerije said. ?It will get to a point of threatening him with impeachment. I will move the motion.?
Ekweremadu and other senators criticised the president for ignoring past resolutions of the National Assembly and compared the trend with a recent alleged controversial remark of the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku.
Maku was reported as saying the resolution of the lawmakers on Tuesday, demanding the cancellation of the proposed N5000 note, was not binding on the president.
Ekweremadu said the Senate?s resolutions were “well researched and investigated”, and the executive had no reason not to implement them.
?I don?t think we need the Minister of Information to remind us that our resolutions are not binding just as we do not need to remind him that he was not elected,? the lawmaker said.
?We believe that it is an opportunity for the president to go and look for the resolutions of the senate regarding the BPE investigation. If very fat buttocks are sitting on it, I think he can use his executive powers and push them out and get the report and begin to implement them.?
