Chairman, House Committee on Rules and
Business, Emmanuel Orker-Jev, APC-Benue,
made the allegation, weekend, while briefing
newsmen in Abuja on the legislative
activities of the 8th House in its one year
anniversary.
But he also stated that the House recorded
an improved executive compliance to
resolutions in its first legislative year, unlike
the past when public officers demonstrated
poor compliance to implementation of
resolutions by securing restraining orders
from courts.
He pointed out that in the past, some
resolutions passed by the legislature were
ignored by serving ministers or members of
the executive arm of government.
He said instead of the executive members
obeying the resolutions of the National
Assembly, they would prefer to proceed to
the court to get a restraining order or run to
the Presidency for protection.
He, however, blamed the serving AGF for
non-compliance of some of the resolutions
of the National Assembly, such as the
resolution on Kogi State, on the AGF,
stressing that instead of the Attorney
General to advise the Presidency
accordingly on some of the resolutions, he
would do the contrary.
He said: “Unfortunately, it is those we
expect should know better that fail to
comply with the resolutions. You have the
Attorney General of the Federation who
advised against the implementation of the
resolution of the National Assembly when
the House took a resolution that Kogi
Assembly be closed as a result of the crisis
there.
“The Inspector General complied,
unfortunately the advice came thereafter
and it was opened up. People know that this
is a democracy and it must be respected,
things will get better but for now, I think it
is a learning process.”
Orker-Jev disclosed that in the first one year
of the 8th House, a total of 530 motions
were introduced, 63 passed as resolutions,
20 withdrawn, 446 referred to committees
and one deferred.
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