#2017BUDGET HEARING: House of Reps Speaker Dogara's Remark

Today, the National Assembly began a 3-day public hearing on the 2017 Appropriation Bill, as part of efforts to improve transparency and accountability in the budget process.

House of Reps Speaker  Dogara's address is copied below;

REMARKS BY THE SPEAKER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, RT. HON. YAKUBU DOGARA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BUDGET PUBLIC HEARING ORGANISED BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON MONDAY, 13TH FEBRUARY 2017, AT SENATE CONFERENCE ROOM 022.

Protocols:

RESTRUCTURING THE COUNTRY FROM MAN-MADE MACHIAVELLIAN LEADERSHIP

Prof. Femi Ajayi

When you professionally designed and constructed a home of your dream and the situations at the end of the production are changing, not meeting up with your taste anymore, common sense, if and when applied, dictates that you should do some re-adjustments to the house, or completely abandon the house for a new one. For any human being to say that the way the house was at the time of construction, could not be altered for over the years of staying in the house, could be tagged as being conceptually slothful to meet up with the changes in the family growth. The family size has increased, the taste of the owner of the house and other additional family members have changed, and the community where the structure is situated has changed, whereas the world where they reside, has advanced to the immediate current conditions. For any rational person to say that restructuring the country is a counter move against any group in Nigeria, is not part of the changing world.

Nigeria should wake up for the call to adjust its thinking faculty to something Nigerians need not want, that could accommodate the direction of the world and subscribe to the changes, as the world is becoming a global village.

2016Budget Issues to be Resolved Soon, we have arrived at a decision Says Speaker Dogara

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said the National Assembly and the Executive are likely to resolve issues surrounding the 2016 budget very soon.

Dogara, who made this known when he received a delegation of All Progressives Congress elders and stakeholders from Kwande/Oshongo federal constituency of Benue State in the National Assembly, 

He also stated that the executive and the parliament will not have any fight over their differences arising from the 2016 budget as passed by the National Assembly.

He stated: “We know that our people cannot wait forever for the budget and as a responsible government, we cannot afford to go to sleep on this."

IF SARAKI REFUSE TO RESIGN HE WILL BE DISGRACED OUT OF THE OFFICE. - MKebir Yakubu.

The desecration of the Legislature by criminals should be stopped forthwith. The populace should rise up against all odds to protect our sacred institutions - more especially the legislature that is set up to make laws for good governance. 

I think Saraki, his cohorts and collogues in crime should take a cue from the South Africa President who was tried and found guilty by the court in South Africa. Yes, criminalisation of government institutions is abhorrent and should be resisted across Africa and Nigeria in particular. 

Senate President Saraki Blast Political Cabals, Commends Buhari For Non-interference

Nigerian Senate

The embattled president of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Bukola saraki has insisted that he will stand strong in the face of persecution and calling on other lawmakers to stand with him in defence of the legislature.

Saraki stated this during a welcome address to senators while making reference to his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, reiterating on his submission to rule of law and said that he was been tried because he became the senate president “against the wishes of some political cabal”

Senate President also stated that the laws of Nigeria does not consider any external influence within the legislature while commending President Muhammadu Buhari for refusing to intervene in the politics of the national assembly

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.