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A group known as the Next Level Due Process has petitioned Abubakar Malami, minister of justice, on the tenure elongation of Sani Omolori, clerk of the national assembly.

The group also called on the Senate President Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, not to be part of the plot to implement the “illegal condition of service” of the national assembly.

TheCable had reported how the condition of service was illegally approved to extend the tenure of Omolori and some management staff in the legislative chamber.

The clerk, who was meant to have retired earlier this year, will as a result of the amended condition of service spend additional five years in office.

In a statement on Monday, Abdullahi Aliyu, chairman of the group, sad it was a total disregard for the rule of law for the management of national assembly to implement the condition of service which had been approved as a bill without being assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He urged Malami and the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to investigate the “fraud which is an embarrassment and a slap on the anti-corruption fight and next level agenda of President Muhammadu  Buhari.”

“We also call on both the Senate and House Committees on Judiciary and Justice to intervene and save the nation from this impunity,” it added.

“We challenge Senator Ahmad Lawan, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, Engr. Ahmed Amshi and CNA Mohammed Sani-Omolori to show Nigerians where the National Assembly Retirement Age and Revised Conditioning of Service bill was signed into law by President Buhari after its passage in 2019.

“If the management of NASS is denying that this was not a bill, why insert the 5 years tenure elongation in the Revised Condition of service.”