Nigeria’s House of Representatives has demanded to be given equal status with the Senate.
The House also rejected the planned conferment of the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas.
This was sequel to the adoption of a Motion on the Multi-partisan Motion On The Inappropriate Discrimination Against The House Of Representatives And The Presentation Of The Chamber As Inferior To the Senate moved by Philip Agbese and two hundred and thirty five other Members of the House of Representatives as co-Sponsors.
During plenary, the lawmakers said it was unacceptable for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to confer the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, GCON, on Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, chief justice of Nigeria, CJN, while reserving CFR for speaker Abbas.
The lawmakers said it is discriminatory for the senate president to be conferred with a higher national honour than the speaker.
