NLC kicks against passage of ‘46 bills in 10 minutes’ by Senate

President of the NLC Comrade Ayuba Wabba, in a press statement said it received the news with profound shock and disappointment, stressing that the act denied Nigerians the right to a public hearing and the opportunity to interrogate the desirability or otherwise of the bills.Wabba said, “The Senate, apparently competing for the Guinness Book of […]

President of the NLC Comrade Ayuba Wabba, in a press statement said it received the news with profound shock and disappointment, stressing that the act denied Nigerians the right to a public hearing and the opportunity to interrogate the desirability or otherwise of the bills.
Wabba said, “The Senate, apparently competing for the Guinness Book of Records for legislative infamy, passed 46 bills without legislation in 10 minutes, while the House of Representatives took turn the next day to pass 14 bills transmitted to it by the Senate, without following the regular legislative procedures.
“Whoever advised our lawmakers to take this reckless path to lawmaking has only succeeded in putting an indelible dent on whatever achievements the 7th session of the National Assembly wished to be ascribed to it.
“By this singular action, our distinguished and honourable lawmakers have not only displayed gross disdain for the philosophy of lawmaking in a democratic setting, they have even more so exposed their manifest lack of interest in and commitment to the wellbeing of the country. They have by so doing, apart from ridiculing themselves, also unfortunately embarrassed the country in the eyes of the civilised global community.”
The NLC urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to sign the bills, but rather return them to the incoming National Assembly, just as it urged the incoming lawmakers to depart from the opaque ways of the previous sessions of the National Assembly.