The Senate leader accuses the opposition parties for the use of Parliament to the Tribune for national issues

The Senate leader accuses the opposition parties for the use of Parliament to the Tribune for national issues

… says Nass non -rubber stamp

Abuja (basic reporter) leader of the Nigerian Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele representing Ekiti Central at the National Assembly has accused the opposition parties on the use of Parliament to the Tribune for national issues.

Senator Bamidele on Sunday opposed the main opposition parties for the labeling of the National Assembly, a parliament of rubber pavilion without any justification or test.

The leader of the Senate said that if the national assembly was actually a rubber stamp, it could not have held over 39 meetings with the executive arm to destroy all the gray areas in the tax reform invoices, 2024 before they had passed in the end.

These were revealed in a declaration issued by the management of the media and public affairs, the office of the leader of the Senate Sunday, in rays for various interventions that the National Assembly had assumed in the main public interest.

The National Assembly, at its inauguration on June 13, 2023, embraced the strategic commitment and partnership to face the spiny national issues in the search for the country’s vital and peripheral interests.

Despite its non -opposing approach to the legislative business, Parliament has undergone public criticisms supported with the main opposition parties, in particular the party of people’s democracy, the Labor Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party which describes it as a legislative institution for rubber securities.

Among the public criticisms, Bamidele differ with the opposition parties that the national assembly was still a rubber stamp for the executive, observing that the statement had no justification.

Bamidele cited for the first time the case of tax reform invoices, 2024, which he said, were started in November 2024, but in the end it was reduced through legislative control six months after they were placed before the National Assembly.

He then claimed: “If we are actually a parliamentary rubber institution as most of the opposition political parties supported, the bills would have been approved within a week or two weeks after they had been placed in front of us.

“In the process of approval of invoices, both executive and legislative weapons have held over 39 commitments to wipe out the gray areas in the tax reform invoices, 2024 before both rooms of the National Assembly finally approved the invoices.

“During this period, the commitments involved several interests and interested parties throughout the Federation. Tax reform invoices could have been racing within one or two weeks. But it took six months to ensure the contribution of all interested parties: civil society organizations, professional bodies, religious leaders and leader of thoughts.

“The process includes all the efforts behind the scenes, the meetings of the closed doors and thin disagreements that took place between the legislator and the manager before their passage. We also organized public hearings only to accommodate inputs from different interests.

“We have extended our commitments to all the captains of the industries to allow us to approve the tax reform invoices that will resist the test of time; meet the needs of our people and guarantee public interest prevails over the exercise of our constitutional mandates.

“In the end, we found a way to resolve all the issues relating to tax reform invoices in the prevalent public interest. But people do not know all the efforts and sacrifices that we have made to ensure the actual delivery of public goods. They were anxious to label a rubber stamp when the invoices came from the executive.”

Instead of large in the floors, Bamidele explained that the national assembly at different times invited the executive for the commitment in order to exploit the gray areas in the bills.

In addition, he cited the case of the law on the appropriation of 2025, which according to him was placed before the joint session of the National Assembly of Wednesday 18 December 2024, but passed on February 13, 2025.

He explained that if the National Assembly was actually a rubber stamp, he could have accelerated the passage of 2025 appropriation invoices by the end of the tax year of 2024 in order to support the budget cycle from January to December, which had become the practice of the country in recent times.

: “We have not returned the budget to the executive until February 2025. We did a lot of two diligence. Each committee of the national assembly has duly engaged the leaders of agencies to correctly examine the budget also in the prevalent public interest.

“We are working in the interest of people. We always take into consideration the need to guarantee a good government in all our companies and the need to use the legislative paintings to promote good government in the Federation”, Bamidele