Plateau House member recently exchanged each other in a physical fight while exchanging hot words on whether they should deliberate over a petition sent to it by a group alleging that the speaker and majority of the members have been bribed in foreign currencies by Governor Jonah David Jang.
Acording to .net,the House, which could not sit on Tuesday due to some reasons, convened yesterday, and that the members engaged one another in fisticuffs.plateau house member fighting
Some members had backed Hon. Ibrahim Baba Hassan, who had insisted that the House must deliberate on the matter.
After hours of deliberations, the House convened in plenary with the Speaker, Hon. Titus Alams, saying: “We are all aware that there was a document sent to the House by a group known as Plateau Patriotic Forum and I hope all members have copies, and what do you have to say?”
Contributing, the Minority Leader, Hon. Abbas Wakdung, said: “I was moved by the content of the petition. We represent the over 3.5 million people of the state, we are called names by the petitioners. We should set up a committee to investigate the allegations and tell the people of the state.”
On his part, the former speaker, Hon. Istifanus Mwansat, urged the speaker to allow the clerk to read the contents of the petition and also lay it on the table for deliberation, but Alams overruled it and adjourned the proceedings till Thursday (today).
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