There are weeks when the Nigerian Senate behaves like a legislative chamber.

Then there are weeks when it becomes something closer to a travelling theatre troupe that forgot its script, lost its props, and decided to improvise anyway.

Last week was one of those weeks.

It began, as these things often do, with Orji Uzor Kalu quietly reminding everyone that oversight hearings are not meant to be boring.

On Tuesday, the South East Development Commission (SEDC) was on the grill, and the Managing Director, Mark Okoye, was expected to account for N16.6 billion in budgetary allocations and expenditures that seemed to generate more questions the more they were answered or avoided.