Niger Assembly sacks second Speaker in one week

The Niger state House of Assembly has impeached Hon. Isa Kawu who was elected as Speaker of the House only Tuesday last week.Kawu was impeached after a vote of no confidence was passed with 21 members in support of the motion and only 3 against.A new Speaker, Hon. Adamu Usman, has been elected and sworn in by the Clerk of the House.His immediate predecessor, Mohammed Tsowa Gammunu, was impeached last Tuesday after a motion was moved by Hon. Bashir Loko Goma, representing Wushishi constituency under matters of urgent public importance for lack of competence.Consequently, Gamunu; Ahmed Bello, the Deputy Speaker; Mohammad Dada, the Majority leader and Sa'adatu Kolo, the Chief Whip were all removed and replaced by Isa Kawu as Speaker, Abdulrahman Gambo as Deputy Speaker, Mr Yusuf Kure as Majority Leader and Alhaji Nazeer Abdullahi as Chief Whip.The former Speaker Gamunu, had on Monday, dragged the then newly elected Speaker of the Assembly , Isa Kawu and 19 others before a Minna High Court seeking to restrain the new speaker from performing the duties of the office pending the determination of the case.
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