'CONFERENCE HALL'- SENATORS COMPLAIN OVER POOR QUALITY OF RECONSTRUCTED SENATE CHAMBER. (PHOTO).

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 ‘Conference Hall’ – Senators complain over poor quality of reconstructed Senate Chamber Senators on Tuesday expressed anger over the condition of the reconstructed Chamber, which they described as a ‘mere conference room’. Controversy has trailed the refurbished Senate Chambers since plenary resumed in the facility last week. Last Tuesday’s plenary was trailed by confusion as some Senators quarreled over sitting arrangements in the renovated chamber. During plenary on Tuesday, complaints over the standard of the Chambers led to a rowdy session which lasted for about 15 minutes and eventually forced the Senate into executive session. The Chief Whip of the Senate and lawmaker representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, who raised the issues through Order 42 of the Senate Standing Rules, said, “What is supposed to be a Chamber, has been turned into a Conference Hall”, a development which he said is not acceptable. “Mr President, I rise to make disturbing observations on this supposedly renovate

THE SENATE IS WORKING TO REPOSITION THE TRANSPORT SECTOR-SARAKI.

Image may contain: 1 person, sitting            Senate President,Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki,has said that the Senate is presently working on critical legislation to reposition the nation's transportation sector.
Saraki disclosed this when the National Executive Committee of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria {RTEAN},led by its National President,Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq visited him in Abuja.The Senate President who was decorated as the Grand Patron of the association by Sadiq,during the visit,according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary,Sanni Onogu,stated that the National Assembly,under his leadership,will spare no effort to ensure that the transport sector is working effectively.
Saraki said: ''In the Senate already,our main focus is to see how we can encourage more private sector participation in the transport sector and that is why we have about six different bills in the transportation sector.They include the Transport Commission Bill,Federal Roads Authority Bill,All these are meant to improve the Transport sector and help businesses in the country,'' he said.He said that the National Assembly will continue to encourage entrepreneurs to manufacture cars locally at affordable prices.''We still believe that we can provide the enabling environment that will make the price of new vehicles almost the same as some of the second hand cars that are being imported to check the idea where vehicles that have been condemned in other parts of the world are brought here,he said.
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