The Senate is currently in an emergency closed session to discuss the outcome of the meeting between the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , and the presiding officers of the National Assembly
last Thursday.The Minority Leader of the Upper Chamber, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, had told our correspondent on Friday that the Senate would take an official position on the decision by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, to flout its decision on the recruitment of 774, 000 federal workers.
He had said, “The Senate will take an official position on the issue next Tuesday after listening to the outcome of the meeting between the presiding officers and the President over the matter. The federal parliament had suspended the Public Works Programme penultimate week following a disagreement between its committee on Labour and Kayamo.
Instead of respecting the verdict of the legislators, Keyamo told journalists on Tuesday that Buhari had asked him to proceed with the recruitment process notwithstanding the position of the National Assembly on the issue.
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