There was a heated argument during a 2025 budget defence session on Thursday at the National Assembly as lawmakers sought to make sense of the details in last year’s budget of the Nigeria Police Force.
Trouble began when the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, was providing a breakdown of funds allocated for the construction of five zonal police headquarters across the country.
Egbetokun had barely started his presentation when a member of the House of Representatives, Mark Esset, from Akwa Ibom, interjected, questioning why the details being read by the IGP were not contained in the documents provided to him.
However, it was Senator Onyekachi Nwebonyi, a member of the All Progressives Congress and a Principal Officer, who escalated the situation. He insisted that, as a senator, he should have the appropriate copy of the document the IGP was presenting.
Nwebonyi, who represents Ebonyi North, stated: “We are here to serve Nigerians, and Nigerians should see us as a very serious institution.
“We are not against the presentation of the IGP. But I, as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, should have what the IGP is reading.”
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