Isaac Shobayo, Jos - 05.11.2006

Already, the sixteen members of the state House of Assembly have declared that they do not recognise the panel set up by the Acting Chief Judge of the state, Justice Lazarus Dakyen, and would have nothing to do with the findings of the panel.

Members of the House and close relations of missing lawmakers, Peter Azi and Pam Dongs, told Sunday Tribune that since they were moved to Lagos last week, they had been making efforts to get in touch with them without success.

A member of the House who spoke with Sunday Tribune on condition of anonymity, said the two lawmakers and the Clerk of the House, Mr. Cornelius Shilobal, who have been in detention in Abuja, were moved to Lagos with the aim of charging them to Court, but were neither charged to court nor taken back to their detention cells in Abuja.

He added that some members of their families had gone round the various EFCC cells in Lagos State last week but could not trace them, adding that they returned to Abuja and still did not find them.

He also claimed that the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc committee looking into the Plateau crisis, had asked that they should either be charged to court or released, adding that it was based on this that people were of the opinion that they might have been released.