A bill seeking to alter the constitution to allow public officers own and operate foreign bank accounts is currently being considered by the Senate.

The Senate Bill number 347 sponsored by Senator Solomon Olamilekan was obtained by THE PUNCH, in Abuja, on Wednesday.

Entitled, "An Act to Alter The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 To Permit Public Officers to Maintain or Operate a Bank Account In Any Country Outside Nigeria; And For Related Matters," the bill seeks to alter a part of the fifth schedule of the constitution.

In an explanatory memorandum attached to it, the sponsor of the bill said, "This bill seeks to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, in order to delete the provision in the Code of Conduct for public officers which forbids them from operating a bank account in a bank outside Nigeria.

"This is owing to the fact that the prohibition does no accord with the current realities where the world has become a global village, where illicit funds could easily be tracked."

Specifically, the bill seeks to alter Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution on the Code of Conduct of Public Officers by deleting paragraph 3.

Reacting to this development, the Executive Director of the Civil Societies Legislative and Advocacy Centre, Auwual Musa-Rafsanjani, said the bill in question was self serving.

He said, "I don't know if our present crops of legislators are in the National Assembly to serve themselves or to serve Nigerians. Are these the kind of bills they should be dissipating their energy on at this time of economic emergency?

"I think Nigerians have a duty to rise up and let these people know that there is hunger in the land and that what we expect are practical solutions to our economic challenges."

Olamilekan has also sponsored another bill in which he is seeking to alter the constitution to allow lawmakers to share powers with the President on the issue of removing of non-performing ministers from office.

The Bill is entitled: "An Act to Amend The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 To Provide For The Consent Of the Senate/State House of Assembly For the Removal Of A Minister Of the Government of the Federation/ Commissioner Of the Government Of A State."

The bill seeks to alter Section 147 of the Principal Act by inserting a new subsection (4).

If passed into law, Section 4 will then read: "Any person appointed to the office of Minister of the Government of the Federation may be removed from such office (by) the President for inability to discharge the functions of the office in question (whether arising from infirmity of mind or body) or for misconduct or for contravention of any Act of the Federation: Provided that the Senate concurs with such removal by a unanimous vote."

The President currently reserves the right to fire ministers as he deems fit without recourse to the National Assembly.

http://punchng.com/senate-wants-public-officers-operate-foreign-accounts/

Eh yah

ARMED Robbers making laws.

It is very sad.


These guys are playing with revolution.

Saraki has altered the constitution in line with his ongoing trials.

Buhari is too weak to tackle these people.

They are what Obasanjo called them. "BUNCH OF WASTE AND CRIMINALS"

it is sweet to put criminality in our constitution.

Those that wl support d bill have grave yard in their cupboards

These people have only made laws for themselves and educated Nigerians are just looking God is good.

Our national assembly is an assembly of criminals.

The legislators and the judicial officers are the real problem of Nigeria.

If the Legislative and Judicial arms do their constitutional work as expected, the Executive won't have a choice than to sit up and perform well. But where you have criminals and thieves as law makers and judges, the executive can do anyhow and get away with it.

When Baba OBJ said these guys are bunch of unarmed robbers alot of you attacked the messenger instead of addressing the message. We can all see these motherfuxkers are there to make laws that benefits them and not the people.

They think they are there to better their lives and not the lives of Nigerians.
The earlier we stand up to these assholes the better for us the citizens.

Dts wot happens wen intellectuals fold their hands and allow primary school leavers to govern. D legislature n d judiciary hav been a thorn in Nigeria's flesh

They just need to push their stolen funds out of Nigeria thus the call for the amendment.

Okay

Greedy, corrupt and self serving senators. All these ridiculous amendments to the constitution that they are proposing will end up as trash just like that of the 7th senate under David Mark. It will not work.

God knows Ayam tired of these silly old men..,what do you guys need foreign account for? Is it that the Nigerian accounts are too small for your earnings? I never heard of any politician from other countries having foreign accounts in Nigeria

House of thieves at it again headed by Chief thief himself.

Amidst the free fall in the value of naira?! Senate is really representing the people!

This Senate has lost it completely, they are destroying Nigeria. They have been proposing bills that are criminal in Nigeria. They are trying to legalize their criminality with their position and we will all gather here and be arguing about nonsense.

make rain fall if buhari sign am into law

Buhari sef go follow operate.....

CFCman:


He said, "I don't know if our present crops of legislators are in the National Assembly to serve themselves or to serve Nigerians. Are these the kind of bills they should be dissipating their energy on at this time of economic emergency?

"I think Nigerians have a duty to rise up and let these people know that there is hunger in the land and that what we expect are practical solutions to our economic challenges."



http://punchng.com/senate-wants-public-officers-operate-foreign-accounts/

besides why have foreign account when you have access to credit cards
What happened to #patronizenigeria

They'll soon pass a bill to legalize corruption.
Barawos

Legislooters making it legit to have loots stored in foreign accounts

corrupt idiots

PLEASE NAIRALANDERs I NEED YOUR HELP O

I'm writing a professional examination and the number 1 compulsory question which carries 60marks is very difficult for me to answer and the lecturer even ask us to use our phones to answer the question, but have search everywhere still not finding any answer. so i decided to drop the question here... the question is -

1) Name 10 achievement by the current Buhari's aadministration.

quote me if you hAVE the answer please

Saraki, today he fights for the masses, tomorrow he fights for corruption smh. Very unstable and feeble minded senators

Am just wondering when the masses will rise up to say "enough is enough" . This government is unresponsive to the plight of the poor, bunch of self serving politician. The way out is revolution .

Bunch of LEGISLOOTERS how does this affect the common masses, these people are Jokers.