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Cyril Hart, a member of the Home of Representatives, has accused Deputy Speaker Ben Kalu of sidelining first-term members throughout debates.
Hart, who represents the Bonny/Degema federal constituency of Rivers State, made this allegation throughout a dialogue on the current suicide bombings in Borno State.
The movement on the Borno bombings was introduced by Ahmed Jaha (APC, Borno). Throughout the debate, Deputy Speaker Kalu permitted contributions from former Deputy Speaker Idris Wase, Chairman of the Committee on Navy Yusuf Gagdi, and Chairman of the Committee on Defence Babajimi Benson. Nevertheless, regardless of a number of indications from different members wishing to talk, Kalu cited time constraints and didn’t enable additional debate.
As Kalu moved to place the movement to a vote, Hart raised a degree of order. He accused the deputy speaker of exhibiting bias towards new members, noting that solely senior members had been allowed to talk on the movement. Hart claimed this has grow to be a recurring sample beneath Kalu’s presiding, the place senior members are persistently given preferential therapy.
Hart stated whereas some lawmakers on the ground cheered him;
“You don’t give desire to first-timers… you don’t. That is what you all the time do. That you must enable for first-timers.”
Kalu responded by saying “There is no such thing as a discrimination within the parliament.”
Not happy with this, Mr Hart continued to talk regardless of his microphone being switched off by the presiding officer and stormed out of the chamber in protest.
