SAN FRANCISCO, May 08, (THEWILL) –Â Members of the Jigawa State House of Assembly broke the mace of the assembly into three pieces following a rowdy session over the amendment of the House Standing Rule (HSR).
Tension in the assembly had heightened in the past two months as agitation among members peaked over an alleged plan to return a former Speaker of the assembly, Idris Garba alias Kareka, to office.
Garba was impeached in January 2017 as the speaker of the assembly after he was accused of high-handedness and arrogating too much power to himself and the present Speaker, Isa Idris Gwaram, was elected in his stead.
However, trouble escalated at Tuesday’s sitting after some members raised observation over a plan to amend the HSR as contained in the order of the day, which stipulated that any principal officer of the assembly that was removed from his position through impeachment, would be barred by law from re-contesting for any office under the leadership of the assembly.
Irked by the development, the members opposing the proposed amendment went after the mace while the sergeant at arm attempted to stop them and in the process but the mace got broken into three pieces.
The rowdy session compelled the speaker to adjourn the sitting of the assembly to next week, Thursday.
