Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has revealed that courts in Nigeria have banned the illegal suspension of legislators.
Falana, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said due to the court pronouncements, including the Court of Appeal on the illegality of the suspension of elected members of legislative houses in Nigeria, the “suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is the height of legislative recklessness.”
He charged the Senate to immediately lift the suspension of Senator Natasha since “the Federal High Court had restrained the Senate Ethics Committee from hearing the complaint against the embattled senator pending the determination of the motion on notice the Senate ought to have stayed action in accordance with the rule of law.”
Relatedly, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio, to “immediately rescind the unlawful suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as it is based solely on the peaceful exercise of her constitutionally and internationally recognised right to freedom of expression.”