Senate Resumes, Says Constitutional, Electoral Act Amendment Are Priorities


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Written by Ayodele Adesanmi, Abuja
Wednesday, 14 September 2011

The Senate resumed from a six-week recess on Tuesday and said Constitutional  and  Electoral Act amendment were the main focus.

The senators were seen exchanging pleasantries and banter as early as 9.00a.m.  before the plenary.

While welcoming his colleagues,  the Senate President, David Mark, disclosed that  Constitutional and Electoral Act amendment were the top priorities.

He declared, “let me note that Constitutional amendment remains  one of the top priorities of the seventh Senate. Our success in the electoral reforms is now obvious and has been widely acknowledged after the 2011 general election. I congratulate members of the sixth National Assembly, once again, for breaking the jinx of constitutional amendment in Nigeria. The onus is, therefore, on us to build on this success. We shall endeavour to produce a workable constitution that will stand the test of time.

He added  that in the course of pursuing  the  legislative agenda, “we will most likely review the Electoral Act, 2010. Now that primaries and elections are over and the tribunals are addressing the aftermaths of the election in accordance with the Electoral Act, we should be able to draw from the lessons learnt and further amend the Act accordingly.

“Thus, while the 2010 Act laid the foundation for possibly the best election in our democratic history, it is still not perfect. In our quest to continue to improve our electoral process, we will work with the Independent National Electoral Commission, political parties and other stakeholders to revisit the 2010 Electoral Act, to address the issues arising from its operation ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in some states and the 2015 general election.”

David Mark, who read a  written speech, said Nigerians expected  the Senate to revisit some fundamental issues such as state creation, the local government system, devolution of powers, revenue allocation, state police, state INEC, uniform minimum wage, joint account and other contentious but important issues.

imagine slotting one tnt into an ongoing session

Six weeks = 42 days. And before this six week recess they had another one which slowed down ministerial appointments.

How many days out of the first 100 days have these fucking bastards been on holiday.

These assholes are the problem. Fucking bastards!

i will suggest we scrap all this senate , we can have another way of voting for what we need,and use their salary money to build schools,this is just planing ,it may be implemented in the next 20 years

The worst thing that has happened to this democracy is the Senate. They are a bunch of clowns who are just there for there selfish interest. Now it is about amending Constitution every time. And most of the amendments are politically motivated and selfish at large. The money we spend to maintain National Assembly is too much and I don't think they add any value. Going on recces everytime, then coming back to play around with the Constitution at will. We earn cheap money in this country. That is why everybody wants to become a politician and why elections are do or die.

Law making should at best be a part-time business. All these while they were on recces, we don't have any business paying them. Before the election, they went on recces. After the election, they went on recces. They were called back to screen ministers and after that, they said they did a very tedious job and went on 6 weeks recces. These are the kind of people whose behaviours are fuelling violence by unemployed youths because the liberty is just too much.

They spent four years to amend the Constitution and they will spend another four years to amend what they amended. Pure Jamboree, if you ask me.

Where is Boko haram when you need them! Hard working Nigerians are only entitled to 21days annual leave and these bunch of jokers have gone on 42days already and that will not be the last oh!

Nigerians should organize mass demonstrations to protest the amount of vacations and paid leaves that senators enjoy!

NGOs concerned with governmental change should get ready to organize protests to push for certain changes in the proposed constitutional amendment process.

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