Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has said the campaign to put an end to atrocities of banned Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) began in the lower chamber.

Gbajabiamila disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at a legislative conference with theme: “Legislative investigative powers: Expectations, challenges and way forward” organised by Hallowmace Media in conjunction with the National Orientation Agency (NOA).

He said: “The #End- SARS movement started on the floor of the House where we passed a resolution calling on the Federal Government to scrap SARS.”

Gbajabiamila, who was represented by the House leader, Hon. Alhassan Ado- Doguwa, lamented that the legislature has been undermined in the country despite the landmark achievements it has recorded.

“The legislature is the number one institution in a democracy because without legislature, there will be no democracy. I urge you the public to come close to the institution of parliament and know what we do, so that you can have first-hand experience and information.

“Unfortunately, the parliament is undermined here unlike in other climes where it is taken as number one component of government. But we need to strengthen the institution.”

Speaking on the achievements of the legislature, Ado-Doguwa noted that “the creation of the North- East Development Commission (NEDC) was made possible by the legislature through its resolution and subsequent legislation.”

“The establishment of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management is also a product of the agitation from the National Assembly, precisely from the Senate,” he stated.

In his address at the occasion, the director general of NOA, Dr. Garba Abari, said the legislature was seriously misunderstood in Nigeria. Abari said: “In the course of our sensitization activities in various communities across Nigeria, we have discovered that there exists a serious inadequate understanding of the role of the legislators in our democratic process.

“This inadequate understanding is prevalent in the rural areas where our infrastructure deficit is most predominant.

As a result of this infrastructure deficit, rural dwellers often look up to individuals to provide basic necessities such as borehole for potable water, schools, roads etc.”

According to him, “The performances of members of the legislature are hardly ever measured by the number of bills sponsored or initiated, neither are they judged by the number of motions moved.

The rating is usually in terms of how many schools, hospitals, and roads he has put in place.”

In his welcome address, the chief executive of Hallowmace Communications, Mr. Sunny Osiebe, said until the legislature wakes up from its slumber, Nigerians will never sleep.

“Until the National Assembly wakes up from its sleep, Nigerians will also not sleep.”

mainman7:
Bitter Truth time! Are you ready?! Ok. Someone once said "If you see a Snake and see and Igbo, quickly kill the Igbo first because Igbos are more deceitful and dangerous than snakes." I didn't believe this Initially, but when I discovered that the North earned their respect and peace from Igbos only after they started massively killing them. Yorubas on the other hand accepted them as brothers, soon they started satanically eyeing Yoruba Land, and hatched a plan of enslaving Yorubas right on Yoruba Land. Just because Yorubas focused on Education and Igbos focused on trading, they were able to take in much of Yorubas Monies. But instead of being grateful and thankful, they used this same Yoruba Money to stab Yorubas in the back by engaging in derogatory scandalous slanding of Yorubas as a People. Telling other tribes that Yorubas are stupid, dirty, etc. Until Yorubas start to mercilessly kill Igbos enmasse, Igbos would never respect them. It is just their nature, as subtle deceptive snakes and scopions, Igbos can never change their satanic evil wicked ever nursing greed and evil for other people Nature, unless they are massively slaughtered. It is the only way to make them think like normal apperecitive human souls. Let me remind those with short memories here, During Good luck Jonathan era, this their Satnic agenda would have been achieved if he won 2nd Term. They already got the Law in Process, saying that Igbos can become Governor of Lagos, Lagos is a no Man's Land, etc. Truly, you would be destroy by the Satanic Igbos masquerading as Saints everywhere if you don't quickly destroy them. There is a wicked nepotic insatiably Greedy Demon in every Igbo.

Hmmm... Ok. In another news, the guy's reply below made me know that there is still Hope for Nigeria. We all know that Greed is what started the very first Coup and Political Bloodshed in Nigeria. Fulanis were very good people who never knew that Destiny of a Nation could be enslaved with guns plus Polical Authority till evil Souls showed them the satanic way by being the very first to do such on January 29, 1966. Know you History, so that you know your true Enemy that already masquerades as Saints.
You are among the very few that still has Sense on NL. You are very intelligent, unlike most gullible senseless people on NL Hoodwinked and brainwashed to think GTB is the one defaulting. Innoson is a Big Thief! Wise ones know how highly tribalistic Igbos still supported and justified Evans in notorious merciless Kidnapper, is it Innoson that obviously tried to Borrowed from GTB, tried to dupe the Bank and still unrepentantly dragging the Noble Name of the Bank in the mud that the sad souls called Igbos would now defend?! Worse still Innoson was robbing Nigeria Government by Tax Evation on all is Imports until this GTB case exposed the 419 Company. By now, myhopic gullible Yorubas should have learned enough from History to never to be manipulated by the satanically deceitful souls called Igbos. They are frantically trying to DeMarket GTB so that unscrupulous Igbo Banks like Fidelity Bank can hijack their large Customers. You should know the irreparable Depth to which satanic Nepotism and demonic Hatered for other Humanity has eaten Igbo Souls by seeing how wickedly United they have been against the Innocent Wonderful Benevolent Soul like Lola who lifted the whole Okoye Family from excruciating Poverty when they were nobody. Yet, they quickly forgot that chew the Finger that fed them. Such Satanic Heartless is what only Igbos are capable of. All the Fulani Bandits and Tribal Killers that now about in Nigeria should ONLY Kill Igbos, because they introduce Political Killings into a Once Thriving Country called Nigeria. All Igbos must be wiped out from the Surface of the Earth. "Woe unto them that say they are Jew and they are not! But they are Synagogue of Satan!" Talking about Igbos! They masquerade as Saints whereas they are the most evil Satanic Souls on Earth. The CREATOR of all Humanity shall Avenge the sleepless Nights they have caused the likes of Lola and others, all the Innocent Yoruba Blood shed during the Coups and even the Blood killed by of those killed by Bandits shall forver be upon Igbos, they normalized and introduced Political Killings into Nigeria. May Judgement of ALMIGHTY GOD once again Fall unpon all the satanic insatiably Greedy Souls Igbos and permanently wipe them out of existence. They shall all be wiped out of the Surface of Earth for the unnepolitic untribalistic united Humanity to enjoy Everlasting Peace.

SilverNorGold:
Not just SARS, end police brutality.. SARS is just an acronym.. Na the brutality be the koko.. Reform the police.. End brutality, shikena .. That's basically what we want.. We didn't say end ABCD... Whatever letters you combine to call them is not our business..

By the way, some unscrupulous police personnel in other units are still brutalizing innocent people. They don't have to be "SARS" to be brutal. Please do something urgently about this... I will use this opportunity to appeal to our beloved father, President Mohammadu Buhari, to please, add more fuel to the reform processes for speedy and smooth delivery.. I also urge all well-meaning Nigerians to please, treat our security agencies with respect. We shouldn't treat all of them badly because of the evil actions of a few of them. These people risk their lives day and night for us.. So, the least we can do is appreciate and respect them..

May God grant us the wisdom and strength to take Nigeria to greater heights. Amen..

God bless you all..
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.