Saraki-led NASS passed record number of bills ‘but few had quality’ — Jega Report
This assessment, titled “Scorecard of the 8th Assembly”, was launched in Abuja on Friday.
“They commenced work under a relatively antagonistic relationship with the executive given the way the assembly was elected. But in spite of this, it is amazing that they were able to introduce 2166 bills within that legislative period, out of which about 515 were passed and 21 of these are actually constitutional alterations.”While Mr Saraki led the Senate between 2015 and 2019, Yakubu Dogara was the speaker of the House of Representatives during the same period.
Of the 515 bills that were passed, the report explained that 53 were declined assent by the president and only 80 received presidential assent. Using the benchmark of six months for the passage of a bill, the report found that the gestation period for the bulk of the bills took a longer time. Only 47 bills were passed in the span of 50 days, it said.
It is also proposed having clear monitoring mechanisms to ensure that law passed are effective and effected.The report found that a number of committees that operated in the last Assembly were active while some were redundant.While the committee of the Upper House held a total of 79 meetings, that of the Lower House had 300 hearings with MDAs as well as contributed to the audit report of the Auditor General while also recovering over N40 billion from defaulting MDAs.
The report said this ensured effective representation “as the people are the primary beneficiary of the legislative gestures.”However, the Assembly fell short when core components of representation like “visits, meetings with constituents, establishment and management of constituency offices, responses to constituents’ demands, attraction and execution of constituency projects, and communication with constituents” are considered.
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