Sunday Aborisade, Abuja Members of the Senate on Wednesday asked the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to hold a meeting with the Pre
sident, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , on the recruitment of 774,000 Public Works Programme workers.
The National Assembly had suspended the project penultimate week following a disagreement between its committee on Labour and the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Kayamo. Keyamo had, however, told journalists on Tuesday that the President had asked him to proceed with the recruitment, notwithstanding the position of the National Assembly on the issue.
Neither the Senate President, nor the spokesperson for the red chamber, Senator Ajibola Basiru, disclosed details of the lawmakers deliberation to journalists after the meeting.A principal officer, however, told our correspondent on conditions of anonymity on Wednesday that the Senate had resolved not to make an official comment on the issue until Lawan and Gbajabiamila had met with Buhari.
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