Sun News Online
7 January 2012
Following the controversy trailing the removal of fuel subsidy, the House of Representatives will convene tomorrow, the first time it would be sitting on Sunday since 1999.
Announcing that the House would convene an emergency session tomorrow, to address the crisis generated by the removal of subsidy petrol, House Chief Whip, Hon Ishaka Bawa, said that it was the only day available for the House to take measures to avert impending industrial crisis.
Bawa, accompanied with Minority Whip, Samason Osagie, said, at a press yesterday that the House may equally deliberate on the emergency rule imposed on 15 local councils in four states by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The lawmakers said the emergency session was provided for in the standing rule of the House pointing out that Order 5 (18) (2) specifically allowed it.
On the specific reasons for the emergency session, Bawa said: “We have only Sunday and we are giving a 24-hour notice to our members to be at the chamber by 3.pm on Sunday.
“We will look at the dimension of the issue of subsidy removal announced by the Federal Government on January 1. We want to look at the emergency rule in some parts of the country which was equally declared by the President.”
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