Full Speech by Senate President, Ahmed Lawan at press conference to mark 2nd anniversary of Ninth Senate
“BEHOLDING THE SILVER LINING IN NIGERIA” PROTOCOL I am very delighted to address you, once more, on the auspicious occasion of the second anniversary of the ninth senate. The remarkable anniversary of our inauguration has featured glorious comments from distinguished colleagues across party lines and has seen us visiting the Wasa Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) Camp in Abuja.We have considered it worthy to address gentlemen and ladies of the press, as a veritable means of reaching our constituents, the electorates, and the Nigerian people, to apprise them on the state of the nation, from the point of view of the legislature. The three-pronged agenda of the present Senate/Legislature administration are basically hinged on fighting corruption, eliminating insecurity and economic transformation in Nigeria. The mutual dependency and interrelationship between these key objectives cannot be attained with executive pronouncement and action alone, but also with complementary support of the legislature towards strengthening existing institutional mechanisms or creating new institutions as a means of attaining these laudable objectives. This senate, and the national assembly have shown exceptional patriotism in seeking solutions to the …
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