The Nation Newspaper Speaker Abbas taking law-making from Hallowed Chamber to people - Deputy spokesman Agbese
Featuring on the AIT programme, ‘Democracy Today,’ on Sunday night, the Reps Deputy spokesman highlighted the retreat with the theme: ‘Navigating change: Legislative strategies for economic transformation,’ helped to strengthen members’ legislative and oversight capacity, as well as fostered collaboration towards economic development and tax reforms.
He added it gave critical stakeholders who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to attend plenaries the opportunity to make valuable contributions to issues of national interest. “So, for us as a parliament, we want to look at the best possible ways to implement what we have at hand now and how to use it to better the lot of our people. And again, how do we improve on it? Because the essence of being in the parliament is to continually improve the livelihood of our people. And that’s what His Excellency, the Honourable Speaker is doing. That was what necessitated the retreat.
“Working with the executive should not be seen that we have surrendered our powers to the executive. And again, exercising our powers as contained in the constitution, we must also not be seen as confrontational. So this requires a lot of wisdom and it’s that wisdom that His Excellency, Rt. Hon Tajudeen Abass has deployed towards making sure that Nigerians are protected.“The whole gamut of the retreat wasn’t just about the law.
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