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Senate passes 96 bills, 72 petitions in two years

Obodo Ejiro

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June 9, 2017975 views0 comments

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Senate President, Bukola Saraki has said that the 8th Senate passed 96 Bills and 72 petitions from its inauguration in 2015 to June, 2017.

He made this known at a special session to mark the second anniversary of the 8th Senate in Abuja on Friday.

Saraki said that the passage of the bills and petitions by the chamber during the period eclipsed the highest ever in the history of the National Assembly.

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He said that the closest record to it was by the 5th Senate which passed 65 bills and six petitions within the same period.

“Though we inherited a legacy that created in some minds, cynicism and despondency, we were undeterred irrespective of an unending barrage of virulent attacks and unprovoked aggression.

“The 8th Senate marched on together, erasing records and setting new ones.

According to Saraki, the 8th Senate has led with courage and taken up more hot-button- national and legislative issues and successfully dealt with them.

“We committed ourselves to greater openness and accountability and many doubted our capacity to do as we preach.

“But, we have led from the frontline on the war against corruption, having passed several corruption-exposing resolutions that have saved our government billions of naira cumulatively.

“Today, in keeping with our pledge, the National Assembly has opened its line-by-line itemed-budget to the world, first in the history of the National Assembly.”

He congratulated the lawmakers for putting in the shift to ensure they realized the milestones.

“Indeed, there have been many more. We have taken on the toughest Bills and challenges affecting our unity, the welfare and security of our people and the necessary platform for a greater Nigerian economy.

“From the Nigerian Railway Bill, the Public Procurement Act Amendment, the Nigerian Ports & Harbour Bill, the National Road Funds Bill to the National Transport Commission Bill, the National Inland Waterways Bill and the Federal Roads Bill.

“Others are the Competition and Consumer Protection Bill, the Investment & Securities Act Amendment, the Companies and Allied Matters Act Amendment, the Secure Transactions in Movable Assets Bill and the Independent Warehouse Regulatory Bill.

“They also include the Bankruptcy & Insolvency Act (Repeal & RE-enactment) Bill, the Electronic Transactions Bill and the Nigerian Postal Commission Bill.

“All of these and many more have been the highest compendium of economic reforms ever undertaken by any administration in the history of our country.

“We are taking it one after the other. We are laying the foundation for a new Nigerian economy to emerge, one that is empowering the private sector,” he said.

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