The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has set up a reconciliatory and fact-finding committee to amicably resolve the crises in some state Houses of Assembly.
This was part of the decision reached at the end of the Third Quarter General Meeting of the conference, which took place between December 7 and 8, 2018 in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
Reading the communique after the end of the meeting yesterday morning, the Conference Chairman and Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, stated that its intervention hinged on the need “to not only ensure amicable resolution of the crises, but also to ensure good governance”.
Obasa added that the conference also cautioned the judiciary, especially the lower courts, to exercise caution by not interfering with constitutionally assigned roles already undertaken by the legislature, “but should wait until the conclusion of such matters”.
“The conference regrets that judiciary is fast becoming a clog in the advancement of our democracy and strongly decries a wave of recent judgments undemocratically preventing state assemblies from performing their constitutionally-guaranteed functions of oversight of the Executive arm of government relating to cases of bribery and corruption.
“We call on the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the National Judicial Council (NJC) to check this trend before judges truncate our democracy,” the communique added.
The conference also called on the Police to be more professional in the discharge of its constitutional responsibilities by desisting from invading and occupying state legislative houses in the country.
“The Conference sees the frequent unprovoked invasions of the legislative houses by the police as unprofessional, detrimental and runs contrary to the entrenchment of democratic values and culture,” the statement added.
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