Ninth Assembly One: Reps treat 850 bills, 394 motions
According to a statement by the House spokesperson, Benjamin Kalu, the 850 bills are at different legislative levels of consideration.
He further gave a breakdown that 41 of those bills have been read for the third time, 1 rejected bill, 2 withdrawn bills and a total of 36 have been passed.Mr Kalu said the 9th House has been ensuring that the bills they pass provide real solutions to real issues. “Furthermore, in line with our promise for national budget reforms, the House took the pains to ensure that for the first time in over 20 years, the Appropriation Bill was passed in time to return the national budget to a January-December budget cycle.”
Some of the motions are; Rising insecurity in several parts of Nigeria in 2019, Financial management and improprieties of several ministries, departments and agencies of the executive arm, The need to reactivate abandoned seaports across the country, The extrabudgetary spending of NDDC and their failure to submit their 2019 budget estimates over 13 months past the due date and The ecological challenges of several constituencies in Nigeria.
He said Individually, members of the House on March 31 donated two months of their salaries to the COVID-19 fund, and continue to engage in extensive sensitization of their constituents on public health and safety protocols, while personally donating palliatives and PPEs for indigent people in their various constituencies across Nigeria.
“We acknowledge the need for constant public engagement to help in the demystification of the functions of the legislature and invariably cure the opaqueness around our activities.”“We recall the public outcry regarding the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill, introduced to the House in response to the gaps observed in our Quarantine Act.”
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