Politics Nigeria has obtained a video showing Senator George Sekibo blowing a real whistle at a plenary session today after claiming that huge sums of money found at Osborne towers, Ikoyi belonged to the Rivers state government.
Politics Nigeria learned that the federal lawmaker got up at about 11.07 a.m to protest the refusal of the Federal Government to return the recovered $49 million at an Ikoyi apartment in Lagos to the Rivers State Government, brought out a whistle.
Before the presiding officer, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu could stop him, Sekibo blew the whistle three times while calling on the Senate to investigate the issue.His plea, however, did not gain any support of his colleagues. Instead, Ekweremadu told him that since the case was already being investigated by the House of Representatives, there was no need for the Senate to commence the same exercise.
Instead, Sen. Ekweremadu urged Sen. Sekibo to pass a message to the Rivers State Government to send all necessary documents to the House of Representatives’ Adhoc committee probing the recovered money.
Watch the video below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WpcQeOenJM