Baring their minds on what they consider the country’s most pressing challenges vis-à-vis their expectations from the current crop of lawmakers, they specifically urged the parliamentarians to revisit the issue of state police.
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“The 10th National Assembly must also legislate to ensure that every state has its police. There is also the Oransanye Report that was submitted. Some of the contents of the report need to be backed up by legislation. “If these security challenges and the failing economy are appropriately looked into, it will snowball into enhancing the welfare of the country. So, we look forward to the National Assembly to cooperate with the executive to address these challenges. By cooperation, we are not saying the National Assembly should turn itself into a rubber stamp. The National Assembly should project and make bills that will help the executive to uplift the country.
He added: “Constructive collaboration between the two arms of government is what this critical time demands. The welfare and security of Nigerians and all lawful residents in the country should at all times guide every action of the National Assembly.
According to the National Publicity Secretary of the Pan Niger Delta Forum , Dr. Ken Robinson, the job of the National Assembly is well defined. “The other issue is the feeling of alienation and marginalisation and sense of division in the country because the country is currently disunited. So, they should also work with the President to foster unity.”
“We hope that this National Assembly will provide robust engagement with the executive arm of government whenever necessary without necessarily being rascally, as it were.” “Any reform or bills that would address these problems should be the focus of the 10th National Assembly. This time, it is not a matter of making laws, because there are lots of beautiful laws made in the past, but the implementation remained very poor,” he noted.
He added: “I do not believe that our challenges are the laws, but more on the execution of the laws. Mr. President is expected to use his manifestos for which he was elected and send bills for laws that can move the nation forward. I do not have preferences besides the manifestoes for which they were elected. But I pray they would not forget to improve the administration of local government councils, where staff members collect salaries without working.
The Coordinator of Transition Monitoring Group , Delta State chapter, Pastor Edewor Egedegbe, also tasked the lawmakers with the performance of their oversight functions. He, therefore, urged the 10th National Assembly to complement the roles of the executive by passing bills that would have a direct impact on Nigerians.
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