Lawyers Direct Maina To Appear Before The Senate

Lawyers Directs Maina To Appear Before The Senate Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A non government organisation, Public Interest Lawyers League, PILL, on Tuesday in Abuja called on the embattled chairman of the Presidential Task Force Team on Pension, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, to accord the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria respect by honouring the invitation extended to him to appear before it. The group's chairman, Mr. Abdul Mahmud decried Maina's refusal to honour the invitation extended to him by the legislators but also described the recommendation of the senate calling for Maina's sack as a creeping abuse and tyranny of the National Assembly. According to Mahmud, "we are dismayed at the way senator Gaya, at the inaugural public siting of the committee he co chairs, sacked Maina as the chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension. We consider the call for Maina's sack from the civil service as inappropriate and unfortunate. The National Assembly should remember that we operate a Presidential system of government that limits and delimit the sphere of influence of the three arms of government..." He expressed concern over the ongoing face off between the legislature and the Presidency who are locked in a struggle that looks more as a battle for supremacy. Mahmud further pointed out that sections 88 and 89 of the nation's constitution only empowers the legislators to act within the confines of the investigatory, which includes the power of summon which the constitution guarantees them. Going beyond their mandatory constitutional powers, he noted, is to invite anarchy. "Sections 88 and 89 of our constitution do not invite our distinguished senators to over reach themselves no matter the justice of their cause" he added further. The group reiterated its position on the matter and insisted that Maina must appear before the senate even as it maintained that the senate on its part, must rescind the resolution demanding that he be sacked. It also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to, as a matter of urgency, institute a panel of public inquiry to look into issues arising from the reform management of the nation's pension system to address the ease with which public officials have access to pension funds belonging to Nigerian workers. Abdulrasheed Maina had earlier lost attempts to scuttle his senate ordered arrest, detention and prosecution, and had gone under ground to stall his arrest.

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