The Senate President,
Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu have been tutored on how to live
in a prison, a Senator told Daily Trust.
Saraki,
Ekweremadu, outgoing Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa
and the Deputy Clerk, Benedict Efeturi are standing trial at a Federal High
Court in Abuja over alleged forging of the Senate Rules book.
It
was gathered that the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign
Debts, Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central) lectured the Senate leaders on
Monday.
Daily
Trust’s correspondent gathered that Sani, who spent four years in various
prisons across the country during the era of late General Sani Abacha tutored
the Senate leaders at the Court during their forgery case.
A
Senator who was at the Court on Monday said Sani lectured the accused
persons when Justice Yusuf Halilu stood down the forgery suit for one hour.
"Sani
came and lectured the presiding officers on life in the prison. He told them
that in the prison there is ranking rule like at the National Assembly. He
advised them to cooperate with the Governor in the prison.
"He
said after registration, they will be given plates for meals. Sani also told
them that they are going to share toilet, bathroom with other inmates and that
it is the Governor of the prison that will allocate bed space to them,"he
said.
When
contacted on phone, Sani confirmed lecturing the presiding officers on prison.
"Yes,
is anything bad in what I did? They are my colleagues and as a former
inmates, I felt I should educate them on how to live in the prison, so that
they will not be caught unaware, "he said.
Recall
that Saraki had in a statement he issued after appearing at the Court said he
is ready to go to jail in order to defend the country's democracy.
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