Makes me wonder if there's actually a monitoring spirit somewhere that eagerly waits for when Nigerians say "It can't get worse than this" or "Nothing about this country can ever surprise me again".
BOOOM!! Always wrong!
I am referring to the embarrassing mayhem that engulfed the Rivers State House of Assembly on the 9th of July which was spurred on by the audaciously stupendous move by five rogue legislators to impeach the current Speaker of the house without regard to due process.
The genesis of all this is believed to be the festering differences between the Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi; and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, his wife Patience and the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, who is the principal figure in a plot to undermine the authority of the governor of Rivers State who is seen to be a potential threat to President Jonathan's second term candidacy.
The long and drawn out battle has also seen the deeply troubled PDP attempt all manner of absurdities to remove Amaechi as the chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum despite a free and fair election in which he defeated Plateau State governor Jonah Jang clearly who is considered Mr. President's candidate.
Unfortunately, Mr. President has decided to keep mum on the subject rather than make a definitive statement, preferring to send his errand boys out to issue out vague statements as regards the crisis. This new crisis is the Rivers State House of Assembly could very well be the fallout of the President's visit to the state last week.
It is understood that the rogue five led by Evans Bipi, a former aide to the first lady and now a PDP legislator representing Ogu/Bolo constituency in River State stormed the premises with thugs who dislodged the sitting legislators, commenced impeachment proceedings against the current speaker, Otelemaba Amachree and illegally elected Evans Bipi as his replacement.
However, the video that went viral yesterday is the response by another lawmaker, Chidi Lloyd who is believed to be one of Governor Rotimi Amaechi's loyalists. The video is one of the most blood-thirsty displays of violence and rascality I have ever seen, second only to the Aluu killings that happened last year.
The "honourable" member clad in white caftan and red cap was seen clobbering one of the rogue five - his colleague, senselessly with the mace until it broke. Even when blood was spilled, he continued with his ferocious attack. It will be very difficult to make me believe that Mr. Chidi Lloyd has not taken a human life before. He displayed such murderous intent and seemed to be quite at home with blood and violence. Such a man has no business making laws for human beings. He should be in the company of wild animals; canivores specifically. If a lawmaker cannot go through the proper channels of seeking redress, who will?!
Another clip showed an officer of the police force brutalizing a sitting member...in fact, I was at loss for words when I viewed the video for the first time. It is the height of crass irresponsibility for a sitting legislator to behave in such rascal manner akin to motor park touts and university cultists. Not an iota of decorum! As for the role of that police man, I have no words to describe just how stupid that was. I sincerely hope he gets summarily dismissed from the force and has criminal proceedings instituted against him for good measure because apparently, he has not an idea of what his job as law officer entails.
As I watched the video, what crossed my mind was how such despicable characters got elected into the state legislature in the first place. Are things so bad that we now have barbarians sitting in hallowed law-making chambers with the fate of people in their hands? One would expect that Evan Bipi would know that a quorum is required to carry out an impeachment proceeding. Is it that he didn't know this or knew but believed himself to be above the law because he had presidential backing?
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