ABUJA-THE Senate yesterday drew the battle line with the presidency
pledging to use constitutional powers to enforce its resolutions
directed at the good governance of the nation.
Yesterday’s
charged session was upon recent comments made by administration
officials on the powerlessness of legislative resolutions. The
legislative body in a retort to claims by Information Minister, Labaran
Maku that the administration was forging ahead with the production of
the N5,000 bank note drew his attention to the fact that he was a mere
appointee unlike legislators who were in office on the mandate of the
people.
For
the first time since the advent of the present senate, the threat of
impeachment against President Goodluck Jonathan was made when Senator
Uche Chukwumerije, PDP, Abia North disclosed that some senators were
already mobilizing signatures for an impeachment notice should the
president continue to disregard the actions and counsels of the senate.
The
outpouring of disaffection was in the course of a debate on a Bill for
an act to amend the Public Enterprise (Privatization and
Commercialization) Act 2004 to provide for inclusion of host communities
in sales of shares. The bill sponsored by Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, PDP,
Delta North, aims to reserve five per cent of the shares of any public
enterprise earmarked for privatization for the host community.
Senator
Okowa in his debate disclosed that the amendment would help the host
community and other stakeholders to buy into the privatization
programmes of government. Among the senators that spoke were Senators
Chukwumerije, Ahmad Lawan; ANPP Yobe North; George Akume, ACN Benue;
Ibrahim Gobir, PDP Sokoto and Isa Galaudu, PDP Kebbi.
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