SP @BUKOLASARAKI TASKS N/ASSEMBLY WORKERS ON CORRUPTION, INEFFICIENCY
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, yesterday, charged the workers of the National Assembly to shun corruption and inefficiency in the discharge of their duties.
Saraki gave the charge, when the leadership of the National Assembly chapter of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), visited him in Abuja.
The Senate president acknowledged that the workers were key to the success of the 8th Senate, saying the upper chamber under his leadership, would continue to make staff welfare top priority.
He stated that, while the Senate was ready to provide conducive environment necessary for staff members to deliver on their mandate, it would in turn, expect managers of its bureaucracy to reciprocate the gesture through hard work and dedication to their duties.
Saraki said: “I want to also urge you to tell your members, particularly in this time of change that we have all fought hard for, that ushered in the new government during the last elections; that we must change from ways things were done in the past. We must avoid bureaucratic delays, we must avoid inefficiencies and we must shun corrupt practices.
“These things are important. It is important for us to accept that things cannot be done the way they used to be. We will do our best to give you conducive and enabling environment, so that the hardship that some of you are going through will be reduced and in return, we will expect productivity; we will expect that things be done differently.”
The Senate president assured that the 8th Senate would work hard, stressing that the unalloyed support of the workers was needed to enable the upper legislative chamber succeed.
“More importantly, please go back and charge your colleagues that we must work very hard to bring result to the great people of Nigeria that are yearning for change; and as you do that, I am sure that what you need for your own welfare will be addressed,” Saraki stated.
Earlier, the Chairman of the National Assembly branch of PASAN, Bature Musa, said the emergence of Saraki as the Senate president had been of great blessing to members of the union.
Musa said: “It is important to note that what you have started here can change the nation because, when you change the life of one person, you have changed the life of a family.”