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At the resumed sitting of Nigerian Senators for the first time in 2017, the Nigerian lawmakers, lead by Senate President Bukola Saraki, celebrated a total of 117 bills, which, some passed through third, and others passed through second reading in the House within the period of four months in 2016.
In his speech to address the Senators as they resumed from Recess in the New Year 2017, the Senate President stressed that the four month feat of the Senate is historic.
“It is already historic that within the last quarter, which incidentally is the second quarter of this session, we all rolled up our sleeves, with sweat on our brows and successfully passed 49 bills through 3rd reading and 68 bills through second reading,” Saraki said.
TheNewsGuru Senate House correspondence reports that the Senators were seen to be overjoyed by the feat they have pulled in the quarter under review as evident at the Senate House sitting in Abuja today.
“This is a record-setting feat, which has never been matched in the history of the National Assembly. That within a period of 4 months in the middle of the term of any past National Assembly, 49 bills are passed in a single quarter,” he added.
Saraki said that 2016 was a very challenging year for the Senate, but said that the efforts of the Senate is compensated by the results achieved.
The Senate President while reiterating commitment of the Senate of passing only laws that would make a difference in the lives of Nigerians assured that the achievement of 2016 has set a stage for greater and better accomplishment in the New Year 2017.
“…as long as our economy is still in recession, our work is not done,” Saraki said, stressing that “Because our people are still being laid off; so long as factories are closing shop, for as the hardship in the land continues to bite harder, investment continues to dwindle and the foreign exchange market remains fragmented, I will be demanding even much more from us to get all our economic reform bills passed”.
“Ideally, we would like to see them pass together with the 2017 budget,” he noted.
Saraki, therefore, urged all committees involved with priority bills to double efforts to ensure that by the end of the first quarter of the New Year the bills are readied.
“We promise to pass our priority economic reform bills to help aid our economic recovery. This is a promise we must keep,” the Senate President said.