SAN FRANCISCO, March 21, (THEWILL) – The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday directed its committee on ethics and privileges to investigate the purported seizure of a bulletproof car allegedly owned by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, by the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS.
The car was reportedly seized by the NCS of which the comptroller-general, Hameed Ali, had been in a face-off with the upper legislative chamber.
Recall that the Senate had summoned the Customs chief to appear before it in uniform over the customs’ planned enforcement of import duty on old cars.
But Ali appeared before the Senate in civilian attire and was asked to leave the Senate chamber and reappear before it in Customs uniform on Wednesday.
This triggered insinuations in some quarters that the Senate was being hard on Ali because the customs had seized a sport utility vehicle, SUV, of Saraki.
On Tuesday, Senator Ali Ndume from Borno state, raised a point of order asking the upper legislative chamber to investigate the allegation, stating that Nigerians were insulting the Senate over the matter.
After listening to the motion, the deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over the session, referred it to the committee on ethics and privileges, directing it to submit the report in four weeks.
