Bukola Saraki
A strong contender for the office of Senate President in the incoming Eighth Senate, Sen. Bukola Saraki has condemned the manner with which the 7th Senate handled the ill-fated Nigerian Immigration Service Recruitment which they were to probe. Saraki condemned the Senate’s poor handling of the investigation relating to the exercise where several Nigerian job seekers lost their lives.
Saraki made his position known in a statement in Abuja to mark the end of the Seventh Senate, noting that the Senate did not act on the report of the probe it instituted.
He said, “I remember sadly, the events of some of our youths who went to seek employment from government and lost their lives, needlessly, in a government arranged employment test.
“We missed, at this occasion, the opportunity of that ill-fated occasion to show leadership and properly set a new standard of responsibility in the conduct and attitude of our public office holders.”
The Senate President hopeful also berated his colleagues for the passage of 46 bills within 10 minutes, urging the incoming Eighth Senate to form and promote strong and viable national agenda.
He said, “The new Senate must now learn and show that it has the vigour and drive to work harder through enriched deliberations to pass important bills that form the core of its agenda rather than be seen as a last minute assembly where important bills are rolled through the process in 10 minutes.
“My view is that it was important that we pass those laws but I have my reservation on the railroading of over 46 bills in 10 minutes. History will not be too kind to us on this count.
“This is made even a little steeper by the commentary that must follow that after another four years, the National Assembly was not able to pass such water shed bills like the PIB, the Federal Competition Bill and the NOSDRA Bill amongst many other bills that have the regulatory potential of changing the way our economy operates.”
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