A chieftain of APC and elder statesman in Bauchi State, Alhaji Sanusi Baban Takko, has faulted the Home of Representatives’ committee on public property and particular duties over its question to the coordinating minister of well being and social welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, on the Public Non-public Partnership (PPP) concession agreements entered with Could and Baker.
The concession settlement was entered into by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo by the Federal Ministry of Well being in 2007.
Takko, a member of Elders Relations Committee within the defunct APC Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Marketing campaign Council Committee (PCC) in construct as much as the 2023 Common Elections, mentioned it was unnecessary to subject a question to Pate for an settlement entered into, when he was not in workplace.
He mentioned: “What everybody anticipated the Home of Representatives Committee on Public Property and Particular Duties to have executed was to observe the laid down procedures of the Home and summon the then Minister of Well being in President Obasanjo’s authorities for an evidence on the contentious subject on the Public Non-public Partnership (PPP) settlement, as a substitute of immediately issuing question or invitation to Professor Ali Pate on the difficulty he knew nothing about.
“Professor Pate has served the nation in several capacities with distinctions, bringing honour, dignity and respect to Nigeria with out compromising his integrity. He’s additionally a extremely revered determine inside the worldwide neighborhood of which his service has all the time been with out the slightest blemish, and for that, it’s relaxation assured that we received’t enable any clandestine strikes to garbage his data,” Takko mentioned.
The elder statesmen insisted that Nigeria is working constitutional democracy, the place rule of legislation, due course of are the true bastion for promoting the success of any ideally suited society.
“On this regard, part 36(12) of the 1999 Nigerian Structure as amended says: Nobody shall be punished for an offence, until the offence is thought to legislation, and punishment as prescribed,” he mentioned.
