Earlier today, the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, inaugurated the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Establishment and Development of the National Assembly Museum and Archives.

In the words of the senate president:

"We often lament about a lack of foresight, and a failure to build on the gains of the past. The proposed Museum and Archives of the National Assembly, however, demonstrates that we can indeed build on the gains of the past if we are determined.

We all know that information availability is critical to the functioning of democratic legislatures. Access to information is crucial to the strengthening of parliamentary oversight, to improving the work of representatives as well as our accountability to those that elected us.

There is also the need for greater intellectual depth in our public life. A Museum and Archives would give a leap to intellectualism in our legislative activities.

It also promises to be an invaluable repository of knowledge that would be of untold benefit to scholars, historians, students and citizens in general. Above all, it would aid our knowledge of legislative history.

On that note, the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Establishment and Development of the National Assembly Museum and Archives is hereby inaugurated, to the glory of God and the greater development of Nigeria.

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Another money making venture i suppose as always ventured into by the people we elected who have no inch or pinch of care and no sense of accountability to the electorates!

The gullible and shallow electorates are not excused either!

Smh! My concern is what will be found there. Framed Photographs of past Senate Presidents, their deputies, heads/chairmen of Committee, old Mace, photos of senate members, e.t.c? Who are those that will be allowed to visit there? A "common" man like me? Trust, i won't have the time of going there to see pictures or photographs.
In the African society we place less interest and values as concerns our past (history) which has been the bedrock of our current predicaments. Till Africans begin to place much of those values, then we can be able to find our path to the greater future. And till then, this could be another money making ventures.