BEVERLY HILLS, March 23, (THEWILL) – A petition by a group of Tiv indigenes from Benue State in the Diaspora that generated controversy last week has been laid before the House.
The petition was presented by the lawmaker representing Gwer East/Gwer West Constituency of Benue, Mark Gbillah, during the plenary presided by the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila.
It was filed by a group –Mzough U Tiv Amerika (MUTA)– on the insecurity confronting their kit and kin in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba states.
Gbillah informed his colleagues that he was submitting the petition on behalf of the group because Tiv indigenes of the affected states had been sacked from their ancestral lands.
At the plenary held on March 11, the lawmaker had attempted to present the petition, but it was rejected by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Idris Wase, who presided in the absence of the substantive Speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.
Wase had declared, to wide condemnation, that Nigerians in the Diaspora lacked the right to send petitions to the House on issues happening in Nigeria.
Subsequent attempts by Wase to deny his outrageous conduct has been rubbished in the face of compelling video evidence lavishly circulated in the social media.
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