Bala Na’Allah, senator
representing Kebbi south, says Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and
employment, risks going to jail over the planned requirement of 774,000
citizens.
Contributing to a motion by
Opeyemi Bamidele, senator representing Ekiti central, on Tuesday, Na’Allah said
Keyamo’s role in the recruitment is only supervisory.
Keyamo had engaged in a shouting
match with some lawmakers when he appeared before them over the programme
earlier in the month.
While the lawmakers had accused
Keyamo of hijacking the programme from the National Directorate of Employment
(NDE), the minister said the legislators were the ones trying to take over the
project.
In his contribution on Tuesday,
Na’Allah said while Keyamo lacks the constitutional backing to carry on with
the process, he has been insisting on handling it.
“The president deemed it fit to
present before this national assembly under a specific agency established by
law to perform a function and all of a sudden we have somebody who has neither
legal or constitutional authority but supervisory authority coming to say ‘no,
I will take it myself and do it’,” the senator said.
“We will be going riotously
against the oath of office and I think that is not good for the institution of
the senate.
“I commend Mr President [for
saying] that he will not tolerate certain conducts that appear to rubbish the
national assembly. The legislative privileges act gave us power to decisively
deal with those kinds of conducts which in some cases will end up in going to
jail and that is the provisions of the law.
“I would like to draw the
attention of Nigerians to look at section 11 of the legislative privileges act
as it exists today.
“My regret is that certain people
lacking in conduct and character have leveraged on certain political [will] to
occupy public office and have displayed lack of content and character, I think
we have a responsibility to stop that.”
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