These are not the best of times for the Buhari administration and its image minders. When Nigerians expect firm and decisive steps, what they see or perceive are tentative actions bordering on lack of capacity and inability to rein in disparate....
These are not the best of times for the Buhari administration and its image minders. When Nigerians expect firm and decisive steps, what they see or perceive are tentative actions bordering on lack of capacity and inability to rein in disparate interests of gullible and often greedy politicians.
While some Nigerians are already swayed by the emotion of the multi-million naira fraud allegation against the NDDC, most discerning people are asking pertinent questions. What does the law say about the relationship between an agency of government and a legislative committee, which oversights the former? And how does one know the boundary between the truth of a matter and fallacy of it?
Section 89 says, as it relates to the power to investigate, that lawmakers also have the power to procure evidence, require the evidence to be given on oath, summon anyone to give evidence or produce documents and issue a warrant to compel the attendance of any such witness.Flowing from the foregoing, does the National Assembly really has as much powers as it often seeks to assert?
There is an added dimension of statutory interpretation which could mean that because of the conjunctive word ‘and’ between the two situations when the powers are permitted to be exercised , the power is in fact only exercisable when both circumstances are present. This is not the case with the current NDDC probes at the National Assembly.
At the Red Chamber, lawmakers have bruised their ego in another running battle with the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo over the execution of the special public works programme of the federal government, which was initiated to cushion the effects of COVID-19 on itinerant workmen. In this case, NASS has also chosen to settle personal scores with Keyamo at the expense of the 774,000 workers to be engaged nationwide.
“For reasons beyond our control, we were not able to present ourselves but the report that came out of the briefing had already indicted us, our head had been shaved in our absence. The fact given by the CBN and the Accountant-General’s office in the Senate explained that between October, 2019 and May 31, 2020, N81.5bn was spent by the NDDC. Yesterday, according to what was read out by the chairman , the same figure was spent in four months by the NDDC.
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