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Bulkachuwa Loses Suit To Stop ICPC Investigation

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Last updated: 2023/09/20 at 5:17 AM
Editor Published September 20, 2023
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Justice Nyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, seeking to stop the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) from investigating him over the comment he made during the valedictory session of the 9th National Assembly.
The court in its judgement said the suit lacked merit and ought to be dismissed.
In June, during the 9th
senate valedictory session, the former senator who failed to return to the 10th Senate said he often “encroached on” his wife’s space while she was in office.
But Ahmad Lawan, the former Senate president who presided over the session, interrupted the senator before he spoke any further.
His wife, Zainab, was a former president of the Court of Appeal.
Shortly after the comment and outrage by Nigerians, the ICPC began an investigation and invited the former senator
for questioning.
Bulkachuwa was scheduled
to appear at the ICPC office on July 6 but he filed a suit to stop the invitation.
In the suit marked FHC/ ABJ/CS/895/2023, Bulkachuwa argued that he was protected by constitutional immunity as a senator when he made the comment, which he said, was misinterpreted.
In his supporting affidavit, he explained that as a serving senator, he was, by law, immune to arrest or detention over any conduct, action or speech he made on the floor of the senate

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