There is Grazing Reserve Commission Bill In The Senate As Saraki Presides Over Session Ahead Of CCT Trial

Senate President , Bukola Saraki on Tuesday briefly presided over the plenary session of the house before leaving to attend his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) sitting in Abuja.

He came into the chambers at 10.48am and the session took off with the opening prayer.

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, took over from Saraki when he left the seat.

During the session, the controversy trailing a supposed bill to create a Grazing Reserve commission for cattle breeders in the country was raised by the Senator representing Abia South Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe..

Abaribe, said to the best of his knowledge, there is no such bill by the name before the Senate.

Should the Supreme Court Regulate the Work of the National Assembly?

"Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is reported to have stated that: The Supreme Court is wrong. The law does not allow one arm of the government to stop another arm of government from performing its duties.The Supreme Court cannot stop us from legislating and if they say that the Supreme Court should stopp us from making laws, it is misleading and it amounts to misreading the powers of the Supreme Court,”

Really, no court has such power to stop the legislature from performing its functions or hold it down for the mr. president or the excecutive arm of the government. Only that if the actions or the law made by the legislature are not inline with the provisions of the counstitution can the Judiciary declear such as null and void but not that the body should stop performing any of its mandated constitunational duties pending the determination of any case before the court or supreme court wahtsoever.

The Nigerian courts must stop taking any case, which pits the judiciary against the constitutional powers of the legislature. The courts, including the Supreme Court are treading on very dangerous territory, when they presume to regulate the legislative authority of the National Assembly.