* We were indeed ‘rubber stamp’ assembly, Adamawa senator tells senate president Sunday Aborisade in Abuja The Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan has said revealed that the former president, Muhammadu Buhari,
Sunday Aborisade in Abuja
“As of June 10, over 1,129 bills were presented on the floor of the Senate, and over 500 were successfully passed.“In the last few days, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had assented to two Bills passed by the 9th National Assembly; the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 Bill, 2023.” Lawan further said that to curb the proliferation of illegal arms and weapons, “we passed the Bill for the Establishment of a National Commission for Coordination and Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons.
The senator told the lawmakers during his valedictory speech at the plenary yesterday that he agreed with those who have labelled the 9th assembly a rubber stamp. The Adamawa senator advised the 10th Senate to take its role as the watchdog over the Executive seriously. Okorocha said, “You are a very smart politician. How you came back [to the Senate] is another chapter in our political history that we need to discuss.
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