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2019 Budget: Reps adjourn plenary to April 2

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The House of Representatives Tuesday adjourned plenary to April 2, to enable the various committees attend to the 2019 budget defence by ministries, departments and agencies.

Deputy Speaker, Lasun Yusuff, announced the adjournment Tuesday at the close of plenary presided over the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara.

The House during the plenary mandated its relevant committees to carry out a thorough investigation into the incessant killings in Kajuru Local Government area of Kaduna State to find out the cause and solution to menace.

The House also mandated the security agents to intensify efforts in stemming the tide of the attacks and killings in that part of Kaduna to ensure that peace and normalcy return to the area.

The Green Chamber also urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to quickly provide relief materials to the affected area in order to alleviate the sufferings of the victims.

The resolution of the House followed a motion sponsored by Yakubu Umar Barde, Minority Whip and member representing Chikun/Kajuru federal constituency, Kaduna State.

While presenting the motion Barde said that despite the outcry of the people, no significant efforts had been made to bring the situation under control as pockets of killings were still going on in the area.

“Recall that sometimes last year, precisely in the month of October, the Paramount Ruler of Adara people, the Agom Adara, was abducted by armed gunmen and days after, the dead body of the revered monarch was found by the roadside at Kateri village along Kaduna-Abuja highway,” the lawmaker said.

Similarly, the House resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the deployment, uses, misuses and abuses of the soldiers of the Nigerian Army in the 2019 elections and other elections and make adequate recommendations to the House within four weeks.

This was sequel to the motion by Patrick Asadu, Enugu(PDP) on the use of the military to perpetrate electoral fraud.

 

James Kwen, Abuja