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THERE is disquiet in the House of Representatives over Federal Government’s failure to implement 133 resolutions passed by the House between June 2011 and March 2013, findings by The PUNCH on Tuesday revealed.

Investigations showed that up to 150 resolutions had been passed by the House as at March 27 when legislators proceeded on Easter recess.

Records obtained from House sources indicated that 78 of the resolutions were passed between June 6, 2011 and June 6, 2012.

Another set of 72 resolutions were reportedly passed between July 2012 and March this year.

However, only 17 of the resolutions are said to have been either partially implemented by the executive or receiving its attention.

A National Assembly source conversant with legislative funding, told our correspondent in Abuja that, “Some of these resolutions may cost taxpayers between N1.5m and N2m each to produce; that is when motions have to go through public hearings and on –the-spot assessment before they become resolutions on the floor.

“Where public hearings are not involved, time is spent on research and debate to pass these resolutions that end up being ignored.”

One of such resolutions was the one asking President Goodluck Jonathan to brief the House on his administration’s efforts to curb rising insecurity in the country which has not been complied with.

The resolutions arising from the probe of the N2.07tr fuel subsidy probe have also not been implemented.

Another one generating heat between Jonathan and the House is the resolution demanding the sacking of the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Aruma Oteh, for allegedly lacking the qualification and competence to head the agency.

On September 22, 2011, the House passed a resolution demanding an investigation into the gang-raping of a female student of the Abia State University by five men. The resolution, our correspondent learnt, had not been implemented.

Findings showed that most Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government also ignored House resolutions dealing directly with their operations.

Under the 1999 Constitution, a resolution passed by one arm of the National Assembly is advisory and does not command the force of law.

The closest to having a force of law is when two-thirds majority of both chambers endorse a resolution passed by either of them.

Lawmakers accused officials in the executive arm of government of capitalising on this “loophole” in the constitution to implement resolutions only when they favour their interests.

In January 2012 when the House passed a resolution asking Jonathan to reverse his decision to remove fuel subsidy, the President’s spokesman, Reuben Abati, described it as a “mere expression of opinion.”

A lawmaker from Ekiti State, Mr. Bimbo Daramola, observed that the executive was deliberately attempting to make the legislature irrelevant by ignoring its resolutions.

“Why are we here then? If we are to pass resolutions that mean next to nothing, why are we here? Let them close the parliament and we go home,” he fumed.

Another member from Taraba State, Mr. Ibrahim El-Sudi, noted that in a democracy, the executive could not afford to ignore the resolutions of the parliament, arguing that the executive should challenge any resolution it found “not to be comfortable with before the law courts.”

El-Sudi stated, “Not until they go to court, they must always obey our resolutions and not to treat them with disdain. We have the control under Schedule II, Paragraph 12 of the Constitution.”

In a bid to deal with the trend, it was learnt that the House had resolved to seek enforcement through its Committee on Legislative Compliance.

A bill to amend the constitution in order to make National Assembly resolutions to have the force of law is also before the House.

http://www.punchng.com/news/133-reps-resolutions-not-implemented-by-fg-investigation/

Federal Government has concluded arrangements to scrap the National Examination Council.

Plans have also been concluded to cancel the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination being conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board for applicants into the nation’s tertiary institutions.

JAMB will however not be scrapped.

The government’s decisions, which would be made public soon via a White Paper, are based on the recommendations of the Stephen Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies.

A government source told our correspondent that the decisions were part of the recommendations made by a White Paper Committee set up by the government on the Oronsaye report.

The source added that upon receipt of the latest report, President Goodluck Jonathan has been meeting with Vice-President Namadi Sambo and a few top government officials to take final decisions on it.

It was in one of such meetings held on Tuesday that the final decision was taken.

Under the new arrangement, the source said in place of UTME, authorities of all tertiary institutions would now be at liberty to conduct their entrance examinations as they had been doing for post-UTME.

JAMB will however serve as a clearing house.

“JAMB will now be a clearing house like Universities and Colleges Admissions Service in the UK. If somebody gains admission into three universities and holds down space, immediately such person picks his first choice, JAMB’s system will automatically free the remaining two slots for other applicants.

“JAMB will no longer conduct examinations but it will be setting the standard alongside the schools authorities,” the source said.

UCAS, which was established in 1993, is the British admission service for students applying to university and college, including post-16 education as of 2012. UCAS is primarily funded by students who pay a fee when they apply and a capitation fee from universities for each student they accept.

On NECO, the source said in arriving at the decision to scrap the examination body, the committee took into cognizance its huge facilities across the country.

But it was resolved that the West African Examination Council would absorb NECO’s members of staff and its facilities.

WAEC will also be empowered to conduct two Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations per year, one in January and the other probably in December.

Hitherto, only one November/December SSCE Examination is being conducted.

The May/June Senior Secondary Certificate Examination being organised by the examination body once in a year still stands.

The government source also said arrangements had been concluded to scrap the Public Complaint Commission, the National Poverty Eradication Programme and the Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution among others.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-set-to-scrap-neco-cancels-utme/

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The Edo State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr Tunde Lakoju, on Thursday, resigned his membership of the cabinet of Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in protest against what he described as“terrible manipulations” done in the party’s congresses and primaries.

Dr Lakoju’s resignation came barely 24 hours after two commissioners, namely the Commissioner for Education, Professor Ngozi Osarenren and the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Mr Ahonsi Unuigbe, quit the cabinet of Governor Oshiomhole.

Besides, Nigerian Tribune gathered, also on Thursday that Oshiomhole might have sacked the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Moses Momoh and the state Commissioner for Special Duties (Oil and Gas), Mr Jackson Eribo.

However, another account claimed that the Commissioner for Health and the Commissioner for Special Duties (Oil and Gas) might have voluntarily tendered their resignations from the Edo State Executive Council.

Reacting to the development, Edo State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih, said on Thursday in Benin City, that the ACN congresses and primaries, which Dr Lakoju referred to had “exposed the deceit and political recklessness of the ACN government in the state.”

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Joint Task Force, JTF, on Customs Physical Examination of goods, yesterday, impounded 165 kilogrammes of substances suspected to be Cocaine at Tin Can Port, with a street value of about 10.2 million pounds (about N2.55 billion).

The drugs, which were concealed in 36 cartoons, came in from Bolivia and impounded based on a tip off to the Customs, which then notified other security agencies.

The consignment, which came in Container No. MSCU 128723/1 aboard a vessel, MV Aldebaran, according to official sources, arrived the Tin Can Port, en-route Apapa Port on December 25, 2010, with a declaration that it came with building materials, particularly marbles.

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Meanwhile, Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Chairman/Chief Executive, Ahmadu Giade, said that the intelligence that led to the drug burst was supplied by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. He stressed that the Agency will remain vigilant and resist the use of the country’s sea ports for drug trafficking.

Giade said, “this is yet another breakthrough resulting from cordial working relations with the United States government.” He added that investigation was ongoing and that the ports had been placed on full alert.

When contacted, the Public Relation Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, confirmed to Vanguard that there was actually a seizure of Cocaine. He disclosed, however, that the seizure was as a result of a combined effort by the Customs and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.”

A source told Vanguard that the “Cocaine quantity seized is 165 kilogrammes, packaged in four wraps in cartons with each wrap weighing 1.1 kilogram and a total of 36 cartoons. All with a street value of about 10.2 million pounds (about N2.55 billion).

“The container was being mistakenly off-loaded at Tin Can. We simply altered arrangements and brought the ‘sentries’ to Tin Can while we stake out the importers and the agents,” said the source.

The source hinted that the drugs were perfectly tucked inside the marbles imported.

The touted choice of Pastor Tunde Bakare as the running mate of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is a smart one even though it shows some pandering to ethnic and religious sentiments. For a man like Buhari, who has been labelled as a Sharia fundamentalist, choosing a pastor and an activist – a relatively younger one for that matter – as his deputy is all he needs to dispel the vicious image.



Not just that, I see the Buhari/Bakare ticket as a repetition of history. During the first coming of Buhari, it was widely believed his non-smiling deputy, Gen. Tunde (another Tunde!) Idiagbon, was the real power behind the throne. Buhari might just be choosing another man, who will do the real job of cleaning Nigeria’s murk, while he does what he has been wanting for years: wield executive power. Bakare is fiery, brilliant and understands the issues that afflict our nation. He will be a great boost to Buhari’s candidacy whose ambition to be Nigeria’s civilian president has been defeated twice.



So, should Pastor Bakare run?



All eyes are on him and he says his are on God. Personally, I feel the idea of waiting on God to decide whether to run or not should be completely overhauled. In Nigeria, this is a too familiar line and, has been used in dishonest circumstances by politicians and military rulers.



Another Pastor, Chris Okotie of the FRESH Party, insists his candidature is God-sponsored even though he has repeatedly failed in his ‘divine’ quest for the presidency.



President Goodluck Jonathan didn’t pretend he was waiting on God but implied he would think about it. While doing so, all manner of voices came and impersonated God’s. Today, Jonathan is running as president. Nobody in Nigeria, who has ever waited on God, has ever turned down the opportunity to run for a juicy position. For somebody like Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, who made it clear, very early in his administration, that he was not going to be listening for God’s voice and he would hand over to a democratically elected president, ‘God’ (or his human agents) never erected hoadings or start several associations to whisper ‘Run, Son, run’ to him. From my experience, once you begin to toy with the desire, God’s voice will come saying what you want to hear and the voice of the people becomes the voice of God.



For Bakare, the questions are legion: So, is that what the Save Nigeria Group and all the activism are all about? Did he become an activist in order to gain political advantage? Is his trenchant denouncement of all the previous and incumbent administrations, self-serving or done in the interest of the public good? The stories of $50,000 by President Jonathan’s men will no longer seem like that of a honest man but one who simply wanted to put down a rival.



For somebody who has been a consistent critic of politicians, his new position is no longer that of a critic but a competitor.



There is also the issue of whether Nigerians will trust a critic as a leader. The last time a critic like late Gani Fawehinmi became a politician, for all his goodness of heart and contributions to the Nigeria of our dreams, Nigerians still didn’t vote for him en masse. The same Nigerians whose right he fought for on many fronts, was imprisoned several times for and, frightfully, died as a consequence of his prison sufferings didn’t think he could be their leader. Come election time that year, more Nigerians, like a woman, who craves an abusive lover, voted for people who had brutalised and plundered their economy.



As an aside, this idea of a Christian/Muslim ticket for political office should be de-emphasised. Anybody, regardless of his religious persuasion or lack of it, should be able to aspire to political leadership without having to pretend to belong to Christianity or Islam. Most leaders, who have come in the name of God, built churches and mosques in the state house have turned out to be largely frauds.



I have heard argument in some quarters that Pastors should not be involved in politics. People, who tow this line of reasoning only say so because they have not been involved in church politics. From my experience, I can say their politicking is as full of intrigue as that of Peoples Democratic Party and Action Congress of Nigeria, if not more sordid. When the leaders of national religious bodies are to be elected, the way they sometimes go about it makes one wonder if God would be given a chance to present His candidate at all. There have been instances when succession crises in churches have been taken to court even though the Bible expressly forbids this.



I followed the Christian Association of Nigerian Presidential election last year and I could not get over the intrigues that attended the process of choosing the leader.



If Bakare wants to take a chance of taking the politics into a more heterogeneous arena, good luck to him as long as he can do it and remain Pastor Bakare.



There are two things that are likely to happen if Bakare should say ‘yes, I do’ to Buhari: one, they might run and win. Whether Buhari tries or not to run a second term, Bakare might want to be president from that point.



Two, they might lose. The very things that stand as Buhari’s advantage are also his disadvantages. He is older (68 and by 2015, will be 72) and he has been trying too hard to be president. In Nigeria, those who desire to be president never seem to make it. As the instances of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, MKO Abiola and lately, Atiku Abubakar have shown us, it takes much more than ambition and good intention to make the presidency. Conversely, those who appeared initially reluctant like Olusegun Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan went farther.

Another minus for Buhari is that he was a dictator who was able to achieve some discipline during his first coming because he ruled by military fiat. In a democracy, can he repress people the same way to get them disciplined? I doubt it. He has been out of leadership for 25 years and that is a long time in the life of a nation. But will Pastor Bakare’s no-nonsense image boost all the areas in which Buhari’s candidature flags? The next 10 weeks will tell.

One good thing is this: Bakare’s personality will boost the political arena that is currently flat. Thank God for Atiku, the PDP primaries would not have been worth watching the way Sarah Jibril ended up as a metaphor of one woman one vote. With Pastor Bakare’s emergence, the bar will go higher and maybe the other candidates, who have concluded that the presidency is a done deal, might even get more creative and finally begin to talk about issues. In that case, I think Bakare should not just go for VP-ship. It might not be worth the amount of effort he would be putting in the campaign simply to light it up. In fact, if he would be criticised for turning activism to political advantage, he should go all the way and not short change himself by accepting to be a VP. He should go for the presidency instead.

Can i vie for a membership of Abia State House of Assembly, though i am from Ogun State?, Pls constitution lawyers help me out.

A Nigerian has become the first black man to become a member of parliament in Poland. John Abraham Godson has lived in Poland for almost half his life and has become a Polish citizen. Mr Godson's success has been hailed as a landmark in a country where there are just 4,000 black people.

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