According to Sun News, the House of Representatives has said it
will probe the attack on former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike
Ekweremadu, in Germany at the weekend, when it resumes from its recess
in September.
The chairman, who House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Buba Yakub
stated this in a statement, on Sunday, described the attack on
Ekweremadu by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as
despicable.
Yakub said the House would also be seeking for protection for political exposed persons in foreign trip, henceforth.
He urged the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Maitama Tugger, to bring to book those behind the attack as he has promised.
The lawmaker noted that given “the high personality profile and
the public service record,which Ekweremadu parades,it is unthinkable
that any individual or group anywhere in the world, let alone his very
own people in the Diaspora, who ought to know better, should contemplate
and carry out the despicable public act of shame that was brought upon
a well-respected national leader of Ekweremadu’s stature before the
glare of the entire global community in Germany.
“I, therefore, in very strong terms, condemn in its entirety
the action of the group of Igbo people, alleged to be members of the
outlawed IPOB, that had attacked Sen.Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg,
Germany on Saturday, August 17.
” I also wish to join other Nigerians and leaders to call on
the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, H/E Amb. Yusuf Maitama Tugger,to
make good his promise to investigate and bring to book everyone who was
part of that dastardly assault on a serving national leader.
“On my part,I promise to lead the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs,which I currently chair,and ,indeed,other members of the
House,who have since yesterday continued to call in to express their
indignation against and condemnation of the act,to move a motion on the
floor of the House and to call for broader investigations on the matter
with a view to decisively dealing with all those involved and seeking
protection for the politically-exposed persons on foreign trips and
assignments in foreign jurisdictions.”
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