The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, urged President Muhammadu
Buhari to give directive to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige
to act according to existing laws on the planned Special Public Works (SPW)
programme.
The House resolved that the Constitution does not recognize
the office of the Minister of State and also directed the Minister of Finance,
Zainab Ahmed not to release funds contrary to that resolution.
The resolution followed a motion of urgent public importance
moved by the Deputy Minority Leader, Toby Okechuckwu on Tuesday.
It would be recalled that both the National Assembly and the
Minister of State (Labour), Festus Keyamo have been at daggers drawn over the
implementation of the N56billion special works programme.
Moving the motion, Okechuckwu said that 202 appropriation
law recognizes “the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Act as the
implementation agency.”
He added that “Minister of State” is not a creation of
Section 145 (1) of the 1999 Constitution. This may therefore be the reason for
the refusal of the Minister of State to be guided on the method adopted by
Parliament for its proceedings and his assertion that “only Mr. President can
stop our work”, not our laws nor our institutions.”
Also speaking on the motion, Uzoma Abonta from Abia State
condemned the executive for disregarding existing laws by adopting short term
interventions.
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