Columns Senate In Focus: Between 9th Senate And Legislative Agenda
Prominent amongst such areas, according to Lawan, are security, economy, revenue generation and collection, education and constitution amendment.Speaking on the performance of the Ninth Assembly during this year’s birthday celebration, Lawan said: “We decided to be focused, strategic, tactical, patriotic, tolerant and patient in our work in the ninth Senate.
The Senate President, while lauding the efforts of the federal government in the area of infrastructural development, underscored the need to improve on revenue generation and collection for the same to be adequately sustained. “I think we have to work hard to improve our revenue generation and collection because it is not looking too sustainable that we tolerate people and some agencies of government, to misapply or not even declare the revenues they collect. We can’t continue with that”, Lawan said.
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