“Members of the National Assembly, ( NASS ) should know that they have been voted into office to work for the growth and development of the country and not otherwise.
“Instead of buying an SUV of that amount, they should know that N70million could be used to educate children and provide healthcare facilities to the elderly in each constituency.
“Lawmakers, please don’t drive those cars that would benefit only you and be a means of oppression against the electorate given the present condition of the people.
“There is no country in the world that its lawmakers are scandalous, spending national money like members of the Nigeria national assembly,” he said.
The writer is president of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development And Transparency.
IF the Senate election takes place in March 2021 as scheduled, the PTI is likely to emerge as the largest party in the house, displacing the PML-N from that position. Not only that, the coalition led by the PTI may either get a majority or be a breath away from controlling the Senate after the election. This will be a significant shift in the power structure of the country as the constituent parties of the PDM, which decisively control the current Senate, will be reduced to a minority. This change will certainly ease a lot of the PTI’s current problems such as the passage of legislation considered important by the government but stuck in the Senate.
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Insecurity and Nigeria’s Circle of Chaos
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A Nation is held by shared beliefs and shared attitudes. That is what enables them rise above the conflicts that plague any society. That is what gives a nation its tone, its fibre, its integrity, its moral style, and its capacity to endure. John Gardner.
If there is any event in recent weeks in the country that aptly demonstrates the nation’s deteriorating security situation, exposes present administration’s failure since assuming office in May 2015, to live up to its promise to ensure respect and protect human rights,and other constitutionally and internationally guaranteed human rights instruments, it is the recent brutal massacre of over 67 farmworkers in Zabarmari village, Jere Local Government area of Borno State, northeast Nigeria by Boko Haram sect.
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