The Senate has introduced a new bill that seeks to consign the management of constituency projects initiated by federal lawmakers.

The Bill when passed would deny ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal government from having any input in awarding contracts for projects captured under the constituency fund.

The Bill seeks the setting up of a special fund made up of 2.5 per cent of yearly budget to be dedicated to constituency projects.

The Bill also stipulated that the fund when set up would be managed by the Rural Development Department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Currently, constituency projects of lawmakers are captured in the capital allocation of relevant MDAs.

The MDAs also award the contracts and determine the execution of the projects.

The practice had led to outcry by lawmakers who often complain that funds for projects allocated against their names are never released or suffer poor releases which often stall the implementation of such projects.

Investigations by The Nation show that the N100billion allocated for constituency projects in the 2019 budget have not been released by President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a bid to forestall the repeat of the development in future, a former Leader of the Senate, Ali Ndume, has sponsored the “Constituency Development Fund Bill, 2019”, which scaled first reading on the floor of the red chamber, on Tuesday.

The bill, according to a copy, obtained by our reporter on Friday, seeks to legalise the management and implementation of constituency development funds in the country.

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Against the current practice where MDAs are fully in charge, the new legislation seeks to entrust the execution of such projects in the hands of the Rural Development Department of the proposed agency.

The decisions on the projects to be implemented, according to the bill, would remain with the various constituencies through the Constituency Development Project Advisory Committees set up for each federal constituency and senatorial district.

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This is another bill to protect their loot and cover their corrupt tendencies. They want to be judges in their own case. They are gradually deviating from legislating to executing and managing projects which are the core duties of the executive arm of govt. That is why they are also proposing the anti-social media bill which will make people keep quiet even in the midst of obvious corruption.

Methinks constituency projects ought to be scrapped entirely. The Law makers should face their business squarely and stop meddling in development projects. It's unfortunate that those entrusted with lawmaking only use the opportunity to advance personal selfish interests.

They want to upgrade their looting strategy, see the alacrity with which this bill will be pass.

Criminals

This people are bunch of thiefs

Dem don't start again.... Tufiakwa!!! **SPITS**

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Constituency project should be left to the executive arm of government. Lawmakers should just stick to making law and stop fighting over project money. People from the constituencies should be the ones to make demands for particular projects. The lawmakers can then submit the list of preferred projects to the NASS so the later can release money to the ministry in charge of the certain project for execution.

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These guys only interests lies in their belly. They are yet to put up laws that criminalize and enforce capital punishment for kidnapping, banditry, election thuggery and violent killing, yet they are very fast at recommending capital punishment against hate speeches and domiciliation of constituency projects. They want to abandon their main functions and become Project managers and contractors with the full backing of the constitution.

We need to remove the office of the Senate from our constitution. They are a financial liability to the nation. House of representative is enough for our legislation. Well if not for haters that caused the change of Nigeria's Unitary system of government to presidential system of government. Due to their initiation of first murder of the prime minister & northern leaders. These wailers have been wailing since 1956.

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This is another bill to protect their loot and cover their corrupt tendencies. They want to be judges in their own case. They are gradually deviating from legislating to executing and managing projects which are the core duties of the executive arm of govt. That is why they are also proposing the anti-social media bill which will make people keep quiet even in the midst of obvious corruption.

u sabi d scope wella.

Yep.

The nigerian Senate is a complete waste of time.

Why should a senator be building schools or water projects. What happened to the governor and local govt chairman. Even the federal government.

A senator should pass.lawas that will benefit his district not embezzlement funds and be giving scholarships.

There is something fundamentally wrong with us Nigerians.

A well thought out plan ensured illiteracy backed up with poverty making majority of Nigerians literal nincompoops.

Another avenue to siphon money.

Chopping illegal money legally

Ole senators

These legislooters are it again. This Ali Ndume is always proposing anti people's bills.

He is the one that proposed the taxing of datas, Gotv and DSTV.


Now he has come up with another useless bill.

This is a man that still has a Boko Haram question mark on him.

These are wasteful legislators that prefer looting to economic development, what a pitiable situation

Total control (meaning they are giving the contracts to themselves and their family members/friends). If you know...you know.

Buhari would never sign such nonsense bill after scraping it in the first place

Law makers should focus on making Laws and leave Capital Project for ministry of works

The model of them nominating Constituency Projects to th FG and influencing who handles the contract through pady oady Ministers is still abit acceptable


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Wetin come be your own now. I opened the thread to comment only to see people posting A,B,C. Na KG1 we dey?

Writing a long epistle will only make my post end showing up on page 20.

They still control the execution of the constituency projects at the moment because they send the names of the contractors they want to be awarded the projects to the MDA's.