The Zamfara State parallel House of Assembly under the leadership of Bashar Aliyu Gummi has said the State Judiciary must respect the law of the land.
Aliyu Ango Kangara, representing Talata Mafara West in the State House of Assembly, in a statement said members of the state Assembly will continue to work in the spheres of their mandate as lawmakers and representatives of constituents.
They said ”;No amount of intimidation from the state government, including the use of politically twisted courts or legal officers, can derail our focused leadership”;, he said.
“We are aware of the malicious actions against us by the state government and have written petitions against the Dauda Lawal led administration to security agencies both at the state and national levels and approached stakeholders who mean well to both the state and our good people on all the situation and flagrant abuse of law by the other faction of the state House of Assembly under Hon. Bilyaminu Moriki which suspended us, some of us for over a year now without recourse to the constitution and the law”;
“We are also aware and in possession of a recorded planned attack on us and our families by some thugs close to the governor and have alerted the security on these, in case anything happens to any of us (individually or collectively,”;
“While the state government mandated some past leaders of the state House of Assembly to meet and discuss with us towards resolving the crisis and while we still have a pending case at the Appeal Court, Sokoto, it hurriedly went to a lower court to seek our arrest without any charge which was wrongly granted by a presiding Justice Halima Jaafar Mikaila who decided to treat us as criminals.”;
“Because it was haphazardly processed, one of the dates on the said court order is even reading the year 2024, while Justice Halima Jaafar Mikaila, who prides herself as a legal officer failed to even indicate who she ordered to arrest us, unless if she meant the arrest to be carried out by the governor’s attack squad mentioned above.”;
“Our stance on the respect to the rule of law by all arms of government in the state remains unshaken, we are not afraid of all the threats, nor shall we be deterred on our mandate”;
