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The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, has called connected the Nigerian authorities to marque the Senate a portion clip work, wherever lawmakers lone get paid erstwhile they person a sitting astatine the plenary oregon committee level.
Ndume made this telephone on Friday while responding to questions successful an interrogation connected Trust TV.
According to him, the Senate and the full legislators bash not spell to bureau connected a regular basis, but lone during plenary sessions and astatine the assorted committee levels.
He said, “To me, I said it, what are we doing? We person been connected recess for respective times. Let america beryllium paid by sitting. If you sit, you get paid. If you are not sitting, you are not paid.
“And to me, we tin adjacent marque the National Assembly to enactment portion time. On Wednesday, we each assembled for an exigency gathering for this year; important nationalist issues, that is the authorities policing adjacent though I person reservations arsenic to the velocity and the mode they are doing it.
“Senate is simply a committee of elders. You conscionable don’t travel 1 day, beryllium down due to the fact that the President wants authorities police, you conscionable walk it overnight.
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