Senate on Tuesday resumed its 2021 annual summer recess after about two months, with Senate President Ahmad Lawan pledging that the Upper Chamber will embark on issues that would keep Nigeria united than ever before.
Senator Ahmad Lawan stated this while delivering his resumption speech at the Senate chamber in Abuja.
“Let me assure Nigerians that the Senate, indeed the National Assembly is concerned with issues that will make Nigeria more a united and stronger Federation.
“A Nigeria where there will be Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress.”
The President of the senate also commended his colleagues for passing the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill before embarking on the recess adding the bill has become an Act of the parliament after it has been assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 16, 2021.
He noted that the President had also set up an implementation committee to start the execution of the provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act while he urged the implementation committee to expedite action so that the Country will start to reap the benefits of the law.
“We passed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), and also passed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2010.
“These were landmark Legislations targeted at enhancing the Oil and Gas Sector in our Country and improving the Electoral system in our dear Nation.
Senator Lawan used the occasion to call on Senate Committees on Petroleum Downstream, Petroleum Upstream, and Gas to start oversight on the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act, with a view to ensuring that the Senate discharges its critical mandate of compliance with contents and dictates of the law.
On the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the Senate President said the two chambers would soon set up conferences to harmonize the different versions passed by the two chambers.
“We will expedite the process to ensure that the National Assembly is able to transmit the harmonized version to the president for his assent.
“Both Chambers had done a great and patriotic job to increase the integrity and transparency of our Electoral processes and procedures through these amendments.”
The Senate President also hinted at the readiness of the Senate and indeed the National Assembly to receive and start work on the 2022 Appropriation Bill.
He said “the Standing Committees are ready to receive Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for budget Defense. As in the previous years, all MDAs are expected to defend their budget proposals within October 2021, as this is the only allotted window for the exercise.”
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