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July 15, 2002

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Legislature

House Nullify the Leadership of All Standing Committees

 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na�Abba, has dissolved the leadership of all House committees and appointed new chairmen and deputy chairmen for the committees, just as he gave the account of his stewardship in the past three years.  Na�Abba, who announced that the House would be proceeding on temporary recess for the end of the third legislative session amid standing ovation, told his colleagues that he was effecting the change in the House to enable it achieve the goals set for the last and final lap of its journey.  He pointed out that the changes in the leadership of committees did not mean a vote of no confidence on the former chairmen and their deputies but went ahead to praise them for a job done well.

Senate Blames Self Over Non-implementation of Appropriation Acts by President Obasanjo

Members of the Senate, Friday, June 21, retracted their steps in the planned impeachment of President Obasanjo over alleged non-implementation of Appropriation Acts passed since 1999, claiming that exercise, if implemented would have only exposed the inadequacies of the Senate in the discharged of its statutory functions.

The Senators argued that the 1999 Constitution bestows on the National Assembly the power to appropriate money and also monitor the expenditure through the oversight function of its committee.  �How do we explain to the electorate that Obasanjo alone sat over the money appropriated since 1999?� the senators said.  They added: �That is a sure way of admitting our failure in the discharge of our duties as specified in the Constitution.  Public sentiment would have turned against us midway into the planned impeachment exercise.�  

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