Heated clash in Reps as Aguocha confronts Speaker Abbas over Nnamdi Kanu’s health

…as Reps acceptable to statement question seeking aesculapian involution for IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu

By Gift ChapiOdekina, Abuja

A Member of the House of Representatives representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North/Umuahia South Federal Constituency, Hon. Obi Aguocha, from Abia, and the Speaker, Rep Tajudeen Abbas connected Tuesday engaged successful a heated confrontation that lasted much than 7 minutes during plenary.

During Tuesday’s sitting, Aguocha raised a substance of privilege, stating that a missive helium submitted connected August 26 to Abbas, Lateef Fagbemi, attorney-general of the federation, and President Bola Tinubu regarding Nnamdi Kanu’s worsening wellness information has yet to person immoderate response.

Aguocha had stated that he’s yet to get a effect to the missive helium wrote to House Leadership and the national authorities for urgent aesculapian involution for Kanu, whose wellness is reportedly deteriorating.

“The Nigerian Medical Association has conducted a 2nd evaluation, and the results adjacent further corroborate the deteriorating wellness of Nnamdi Kanu, that helium has organ deficiencies, debased potassium, and that helium is, arsenic we speak, connected the verge of death,” helium said.

“Mr Speaker, this is not authorities oregon immoderate different thing, but it is simply a cardinal quality close that should beryllium ascribed to Nnamdi Kanu.

“Most different radical successful that spread person been fixed opportunities to adjacent question overseas to question aesculapian attention.

“Nnamdi Kanu is neither convicted of immoderate crimes successful Nigeria and indispensable beryllium protected nether the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“So, Mr Speaker, a batch of advancement has been made successful bid to spot that the authorities does the close happening to beryllium capable to spend Nnamdi Kanu the urgent attraction that helium needs. It’s significant, Mr Speaker.”

The statement rapidly became tense arsenic the talker questioned Aguocha’s usage of “point of privilege” to request action.

“If it is thing circumstantial to the bureau of the speaker, honourable, I find it a small intriguing that you travel by mode of privilege to request action,” Abbas said, noting that Aguocha had nonstop entree to his office.

Aguocha insisted helium had visited the speaker’s office, arguing that his question was a substance of beingness and death.

But Abbas insisted that the level was not the close spot for specified follow-up and advised Aguocha to conscionable him directly, reiterating that helium had nary work to disclose what had been done astir the letter.

Aguocha maintained that the location rules entitled him to rise matters of privilege and pressed the enclosure to dainty Kanu’s worsening wellness arsenic urgent.

The speech ended with Abbas ruling Aguocha retired of order.

However, the Deputy Speaker, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, successful absorption to the constituent of bid raised connected the taxable substance by Aguocha, notified the House that it volition beryllium decently presented for proceeding wrong the week.

The Speaker urged Hon. Aguocha to measurement it down and contiguous the substance decently connected different legislative day, arsenic helium came nether the incorrect House rules.

Corroborating, the Deputy Speaker, portion noting that the taxable substance presented is important, assured the Speaker that the question volition beryllium presented decently earlier the House successful the people of the week.

Kalu said, “Mr Speaker, I’m besides from Abia State. On the contented that is being raised by my colleague, we volition contiguous it earlier the House decently successful the people of the week.

“We volition travel decently earlier the House truthful that due proceeding volition beryllium fixed to it. I beg that you volition springiness america the assemblage possibly time oregon adjacent tomorrow.”

Responding, Speaker Abbas said, “No problem, it’s conscionable the process that I was challenging, not the substance of the issue. We volition beryllium consenting and acceptable to springiness you each the clip to present.”

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