Senator Marafa Accuses Saraki Of Encouraging “Legislative Tyranny” As Senators Begin Fight Over “Juicy Committees”

It seems the battle over who gets what “Juciy Committee is about to begin in Nigeria’s upper Legislative assembly as Kabir Marafa, representative of Zamfara central senatorial district in the national assembly, has expressed displeasure over the constitution and composition of the standing committees of the eighth senate.

The Zamfara senator who spoke to newsmen at the end of plenary on Tuesday, accused Senate President Bukola Saraki of encouraging “legislative tyranny” at the red chamber. He said the committees were “illegal, null and void,” because the senate did not approve of any them.

“We don’t have any committee now. The senate president should apologise to Nigerians for announcing those committees because they are illegal,” he said.

“If the senate president goes ahead to inaugurate the committees, I expect Nigerians to charge in for contempt.” Marafa is one of the allies of Ahmad Lawan, Saraki’s challenger for the position of senate president.

Earlier at plenary, he raised a point of order asking Saraki to review the composition of the committees.  Marafa, who is the chairman of the senate committee on national identity, emphasised that there was no fairness ?in the distribution of the committees, stating that Kwara state where the senate president hails from, had two chairmanship slots.