Faulty microphones: Akpabio threatens to sue National Assembly contractor [VIDEO]

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has threatened to writer the contractor that renovated the National Assembly analyzable implicit continuous method faults affecting the microphones successful the some chambers of the National Assembly.

Akpabio issued the menace astatine plenary on Wednesday when respective senators encountered difficulties with malfunctioning microphones portion making contributions to debates.

Akpabio, portion expressing dissatisfaction with the recurring problem, described the concern arsenic an embarrassment to some the National Assembly and the country.

“Distinguished colleagues, I anticipation you are taking enactment of the information that our microphones are not moving well. You are taking enactment of it due to the fact that I mean to instrumentality action.

“I was successful the House of Representatives yesterday to correspond you astatine the opening of the National Assembly Week and, successful the people of it, the Speaker and I were thoroughly embarrassed. The aforesaid contractor that handled the renovation of the House of Representatives handled this one.

“If this continues, we person steps we tin instrumentality legally to guarantee that a bully occupation is done due to the fact that this is an embarrassment to our nation,” Akpabio stated.

The Senate President called connected the lawmakers to instrumentality enactment of the repeated failures, stressing that immoderate enactment taken against the contractor would beryllium justified by the persistent method issues witnessed during plenary.