Ahmed Lawan, Nigeria’s Senate President, has said he will do anything President Muhammadu Buhari requests of him in the Senate, OBSERVERS TIMES recalls.
Lawan said this when the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof Itse Sagay (SAN), paid him a visit in Abuja on Thursday.
Sagay had appealed to the Senate President to ensure that Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was confirmed as the substantive head of the agency.
In response, the Senate President said, “The confirmation of Acting Chairman of EFCC – there is no request before this Senate for the confirmation of the Acting Chairman of EFCC.
“This is a new Senate and therefore, until there is a request, there is nothing the Senate can do.
“I want to assure you that any request that comes from Mr President is a request that will make Nigeria a better place in terms of appointments or legislation and the Senate will act expeditiously to ensure that we play our part in the confirmation or passing of legislation appropriately.”
The Senate President said the lawmakers are “in a haste” to pass anti-corruption bills.
He added, “As far as we are concerned, those bills will have to come again and start to go through the process from the very beginning.
“We are ready; in fact, we are in haste if those bills are ready for us to start working on them.”
Magu couldn’t have his way because President Buhari refused to send his name for the third times for National Assembly consideration.
Brutai and others for non Careers Ambassadors.
The nominees by President Buhari are: Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin (rtd), Lt. Gen. Tukur Y. Buratai (rtd), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (rtd), and Air Vice Marshal Mohammed S. Usman (rtd).
Should the Senate go ahead to confirm them ? Then the senate would be going against its many resolutions when it passed vote of no confidence on the former army commanders over alleged incompetence.
the confirmation of the ex-commanders would amount to both chambers of the National Assembly returning to their vomit.
Recall the Senate and the House of Representatives had expressly urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the ex-military commanders over “lack of capacity, incompetence and failure to stem the tide of insecurity in the country” to include:
All eyes on the Senate as Buhari nominees are dusting out their documents.