The Senate will not halt investigation into the activities of government agencies because of the allegations of bribery by Director-General of the Security and Exchange Commission, Ms. Aruma Oteh against the Chairman of the House Committee on Capital Market, Mr. Hermen Hembe. Senate spokesman, Senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe (PDP, Abia South), said this while addressing journalists yesterday after the plenary. ?We are concerned about the allegations, but we are expecting the Ethics and Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives to be able to handle that as part of the internal mechanism of the National Assembly for dealing with such issues.
?I understand that members of the House Committee on Capital Market have, on their own, removed themselves from that investigation. That is how it should be. There is an adage that says, whoever desires equity must come with clean hands. We believe that the matter is being given the appropriate attention as it ought to be in the House of Representatives.?
Speaking further, Abaribe said though the Federal Government had failed to implement the reports of the series of probes conducted by the legislature in the past, the Senate would not relent in exposing ?the excesses of the executive in the management of the nation?s meagre resources?.
?There are agencies of government we passed resolutions on that are sponsoring media publications against the Senate. So long as we don?t have good governance, we will continue to investigate them. We have the mandate to do so. We won?t leave them alone so long they are not doing the right thing,? he added.
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