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[00:00:51] Welcome to the gavel, I am Terry. Well, it's no longer
[00:00:55] news that politics seems to have taken over parliamentary activities,
[00:00:59] consider. that there's been only one sit in the last 10
[00:01:03] weeks plus, well
[00:01:05] of yes, lawmakers were on the annual recess from sometime in July,
[00:01:09] which was supposed to last about seven weeks, but was extended by two
[00:01:12] weeks. when they resumed, they only sat once and
[00:01:16] adjoined for two more weeks, so hopefully when the
[00:01:20] resume on the 13th of October, serious attention would be paid
[00:01:24] to
[00:01:24] of legislation, of regardless
[00:01:26] of of the countdown to the general election, which is now approximately three
[00:01:30] months away, but it must be asked, how do
[00:01:34] we expect lawmakers to continue their legislative activities in
[00:01:38] of Abuja while
[00:01:39] of seeking reelection in their various constituencies, especially because they
[00:01:43] have to campaign, I mean the 16th of January is just around the
[00:01:47] corner, well anyways, let's move on from that, the house of
[00:01:50] represents press core
[00:01:52] of held its second annual distinguished parliamentarial
[00:01:55] lecture
[00:01:56] of with the theme, the imperative for state police
[00:01:59] in securing
[00:02:00] it is strengthening federalism, the
[00:02:03] of speaker
[00:02:03] of the house, the governor of Niger State, Umar Bago, who was member
[00:02:06] of the house before becoming governor as well as the inspector general of
[00:02:10] police were all
[00:02:13] of represented.
[00:02:22] of
[00:02:36] of
[00:02:52] We in neigh state and in north central in particular
[00:02:56] will be
[00:02:56] of glad to have state
[00:02:58] a police in Nigeria.
[00:03:05] Based on the happenings, everyday
[00:03:08] happenings in our
[00:03:10] states, n state and the north
[00:03:14] country, I think all the states in
[00:03:18] north central will
[00:03:20] of pass the vote to bring and state police in
[00:03:23] Nigeria, I have seen other
[00:03:27] states commending. and passing the
[00:03:31] bill, so also I show you all the
[00:03:34] of states in North Central will equally do the same. I do believe
[00:03:38] that the parliament can be an engine room for
[00:03:41] policy innovation, and this is innovative. We
[00:03:44] can't, we can't keep saying our thoughts and
[00:03:48] prayers are with the victims of insecurity, and
[00:03:52] we call ourselves
[00:03:54] of legislators. We will get tired, after a while it become
[00:03:57] shameful, is it that there's nothing what we can? do and
[00:04:01] so this is bold, we're looking
[00:04:04] at giving every region their own the
[00:04:08] policing that they deserve. away from
[00:04:11] that, let's backtrack to the conversation of politics within the national
[00:04:15] assembly recall that the minority cockers
[00:04:18] of the house had aligned itself with political movement
[00:04:21] seeking to rally opposition parties and political actors
[00:04:25] against the rule in all progress of congress in the forthcoming general
[00:04:29] elections. the corkus had received a group known as the
[00:04:32] G100
[00:04:33] of delegation at the national assembly complex. the meeting was part
[00:04:37] of the G100 ongoing consultations with opposition leaders and
[00:04:41] stakeholders ahead of its proposed summit of opposition political
[00:04:45] parties. Nigerians are
[00:04:48] waiting, Nigerians are so frustrated and
[00:04:52] there is no reason
[00:04:54] in why as opposition voices we should not stand up for
[00:04:57] Nigerians and bring so far. We have
[00:05:01] also used this opportunity to decide that we
[00:05:04] call on all members of opposition,
[00:05:07] no matter the party, no matter your ambition that
[00:05:11] there is. strength in unit, and I want to
[00:05:15] use this opportunity to tell Nigerians, I just shown an
[00:05:18] example, no matter
[00:05:21] what
[00:05:23] uh, what the
[00:05:26] ABC is giving to you or want to give to you, no
[00:05:30] matter how much anybody wants to compromise
[00:05:34] you, stand up to your
[00:05:36] bidding that in democracy my
[00:05:40] vote is sacred. In the meantime, here are some
[00:05:44] motions and bills that were considered just before
[00:05:48] lawmakers embarked on their annual recess, beginning with the
[00:05:51] green chamber. A motion by the member representing the Korodu Federal
[00:05:55] constituency of Lego State, Mr. Babajim Benson sought a
[00:05:59] comprehensive legislative investigation into the losses, damages
[00:06:03] and casualties suffered by Nigerians during the recent xenophobic
[00:06:07] attacks in South Africa which have now
[00:06:09] resufficed.
[00:06:12] aware that the recent researges of coordinated
[00:06:15] anti-foreigner campaigns and inflammatory
[00:06:19] rhetoric by groups such as
[00:06:21] oppisendadula and similar
[00:06:25] organizations created widespread fear among
[00:06:28] Nigerian residents with many reportedly
[00:06:32] abandoning homes, businesses and
[00:06:36] investments while seeking emergency evacuation,
[00:06:39] following threats and unlawful ultimatums.
[00:06:43] issued against foreign African
[00:06:45] nationals, also
[00:06:48] aware that successive sessions the National
[00:06:51] Assembly have on several occasions
[00:06:55] debated motions condemming xenophobic
[00:06:59] attacks against Nigerians in South Africa, express
[00:07:02] sympathy with victims and all diplomatic
[00:07:05] engagement between both governments, but none
[00:07:09] these has culminated a comprehensive.
[00:07:13] intensive legislative inquiry to establish the
[00:07:17] actual number of Nigerians killed, injured,
[00:07:20] displaced or the aggregate economic losses
[00:07:24] suffered by Nigerian citizens over the
[00:07:27] years, worried that
[00:07:31] every successive wave of xenophobic violence has been
[00:07:35] followed by public condemnation and diplomatic
[00:07:38] protests without a corresponding institutional
[00:07:42] effort to comprehensively document
[00:07:46] the losses suffered by Nigerians, thereby denying the
[00:07:50] federal government and the national assembly and authoritative
[00:07:53] evidential basis for
[00:07:56] policy formulation,
[00:07:59] legislative intervention and sustained
[00:08:03] diplomatic negotiations. the motion
[00:08:07] mandated the house committees on diaspora and foreign affairs to document the
[00:08:11] human and economic losses. take inventory of abandoned
[00:08:14] properties and recommend diplomatic and legal measures to improve the
[00:08:18] protection of Nigerians living in South Africa, well we await the
[00:08:22] committee's report on that. Lawmakers also considered motion
[00:08:26] calling for a comprehensive audit of all seased, forfetted and
[00:08:29] recovered assets since May 29th,
[00:08:32] 1999. The House also
[00:08:36] notes that the proceeds of
[00:08:39] crime, recovery and management.
[00:08:42] Act 2020 established as a legal
[00:08:45] framework for the tracing,
[00:08:49] seizure, for future, recovery, management,
[00:08:52] preventation and disposal of proceeds of crime and
[00:08:56] recovered and recovered assets in Nigeria and
[00:09:00] a visaged transparency, accountability and
[00:09:04] proper record keeping in the management of
[00:09:08] such assets. The house further notes that
[00:09:11] since the return of democracy in
[00:09:15] 1999, various corruption and
[00:09:18] security agencies, ministries, departments
[00:09:22] and agencies, regulatory bodies and
[00:09:26] courts have seized forfitted,
[00:09:29] recovered, managed, disposed of and
[00:09:32] repatriated substantial assets
[00:09:36] derived from from corruption, money
[00:09:40] laundering, financial crime, illicit financial flow,
[00:09:44] terrorism financing and other unlawful
[00:09:47] activities. the house is aware that such assets
[00:09:51] comprise of cash recoveries, landed
[00:09:55] properties, shares, petroleum assets,
[00:09:58] luxury cars, vessels, aircrafts,
[00:10:02] investments, digital assets and other
[00:10:05] movable and immovable properties worth
[00:10:09] trillions of n. House is also
[00:10:13] aware that proceeds of crime recovery and
[00:10:16] management act of 2020 imposes the
[00:10:19] obligation relating to the
[00:10:22] management preservation. disposal
[00:10:26] and accountability of recovered assets and required
[00:10:29] proper institutional oversight to ensure
[00:10:33] compliance with the
[00:10:35] law. the proposal advocates
[00:10:39] national digital registery of recovered assets and the creation of an
[00:10:43] ad hoc committee to strengthen transparency, accountability and
[00:10:47] legislative oversight in asset management. now in the
[00:10:50] senate, the transparency of foreign aid received in the
[00:10:54] country is specially by non-governmental organizations came under focus
[00:10:58] when one law maker raised alarm over issues of false disclosures
[00:11:01] and diversion. section
[00:11:05] 80 and 83 the
[00:11:08] constitution vest the control of public
[00:11:12] funds in the national assembly and section
[00:11:16] 85 empowers the auditor general to
[00:11:19] audit all public accounts.
[00:11:22] accordingly, foreign aid once received
[00:11:26] and applied within Nigeria constitute public
[00:11:30] resources and must therefore be subjected to
[00:11:33] constitutional oversight, transparency and
[00:11:37] accountability, not just the NGOs or the civil society
[00:11:41] organizations, even within the government circle, lot of
[00:11:45] money comes in, nobody is accounting for
[00:11:48] it, the debate grew more intense as
[00:11:52] law makers linked foreign aid to the country's security char
[00:11:57] if you look at uh during the the crisis,
[00:12:01] the boko Haram crisis, lot of NGOs were coming to Nigeria
[00:12:05] with lot of funding, and uh part of that
[00:12:09] funding is also creating a lot of
[00:12:13] security risks for the country, because at the end the
[00:12:17] day you can never tell
[00:12:20] who is accounting for
[00:12:23] what and who is also taking this
[00:12:27] money? most the organizations that came to Nigeria were renting
[00:12:31] properties in in uh state in
[00:12:34] Merugri and they will come and rent properties for 12 years
[00:12:38] minimum 15 years and all that and I
[00:12:41] said just started and it's
[00:12:44] not even up to two years does it mean that these people
[00:12:48] foresee a situation whereby the book
[00:12:51] of haram will first start for up to 15 years?
[00:12:55] so your your your guess is as good as mine, if there's
[00:12:59] no oxygen, would not be breathing. we have to
[00:13:03] track these moneies so that we don't end up receiving donations
[00:13:07] that will tend to destabilize Nigeria and lead to lot of
[00:13:10] divisions. the beal subsequently scaled second
[00:13:14] reading and would be subjected to a public hearing. meanwile, a coalition of
[00:13:18] Nigeria and African and international civil society organizations has
[00:13:22] called on the Senate and the federal governmentts the immediate. withdraw the
[00:13:26] proposed foreign aids regulation, transparency and disclosure
[00:13:30] bill 2026, warning that the legislation
[00:13:34] could restrict civic space and undermine the work of human rights
[00:13:37] defenders across the country. in the meantime, the senate
[00:13:41] has asked the federal ministry of solid minerals developmentts to
[00:13:45] conduct a comprehensive audit of all licensed miners
[00:13:48] and their errors of operation to strengthen
[00:13:51] regulation. several trucks.
[00:13:55] reportedly sank into mining pits during loading
[00:13:59] operations, leading to the death of over 20 workers
[00:14:03] and injuries to several others, thereby exposing the
[00:14:06] extremely hazardous conditions under which mining activities
[00:14:10] are presently conducted. the only financial to this
[00:14:14] ugly scenario is to come
[00:14:17] off with laws
[00:14:19] and regulations
[00:14:23] guiding. mining operations in
[00:14:27] mining communities with a view to not
[00:14:31] only insulating miners from
[00:14:34] exploitation but
[00:14:37] compensation those in support of this player say i
[00:14:41] just again
[00:14:43] have
[00:16:39] Welcome back to the gavel, earlier we brought to you the annual lecture the
[00:16:43] house of representatives press on the state police bill which is
[00:16:46] currently before the state houses of assembly seeking two-thirds
[00:16:50] approval. Recall that the presidential working group on the
[00:16:54] proposed state police bill had begun reviewing public submissions
[00:16:58] received during nationwide consultation. Well this is as some
[00:17:02] opposition figures are calling for the state police constitutional alteration
[00:17:06] bill to be committed to a fresh and transparent
[00:17:10] legislative process while accusing the house of representatives of
[00:17:14] undermining the constitution and its handling the bill.
[00:17:18] the opposition members question the reports that the constitutional
[00:17:22] threshold for passage was only met through votes transmitted via
[00:17:25] whatsapp and by counting members who were not present in the
[00:17:29] chamber. those in support should
[00:17:32] raise their hands. those in support of this bill
[00:17:36] please raise your hands. how can we be? are we primary
[00:17:40] school students? what kind of thing? showing the showing the whole
[00:17:44] world, showing the whole world our
[00:17:46] weaknesses. well 311
[00:17:50] members voted in favor the bill meeting the two-thirds majority
[00:17:53] required for a constitution alteration, but the minority
[00:17:57] carcas disagreed with the procedure adopted for the passage the bill and
[00:18:01] staged a walkout. the minority corcus then proceeded to
[00:18:05] address journalists.
[00:18:08] minority caucus is not against the creation of state
[00:18:12] police, we are not against the station of great police,
[00:18:16] state police, whatever that is going to remedy the
[00:18:20] insecurity in this country as a minority caucus, we
[00:18:24] are ready to support it, but any action
[00:18:28] taken by the parliament must follow due
[00:18:31] process, however the chairman the house committee
[00:18:34] on defense shared different opinion.
[00:18:40] we had originally passed the bill a couple of weeks
[00:18:43] ago, right? so the president bought a
[00:18:46] more a trick the bill and added one or two things that are
[00:18:50] inoquous, right? so
[00:18:54] and i think believe that passing the bill with the speed the
[00:18:58] light is the most patriotic things to do,
[00:19:01] and with the fact that we have the majority behind
[00:19:04] us, including members, of labour
[00:19:08] party and so the people who went are the minority the
[00:19:11] minority. now the idea
[00:19:15] behind bringing back that whole episode was for
[00:19:18] Nigerians, especially the state houses of assembly in whose hands the bill
[00:19:22] now lies to pay close attention to the fine details
[00:19:26] of it and arguments for and against if this will improve
[00:19:30] the security situation the country. Anyways, it's time now
[00:19:34] for constituency focus, we will speak to one of your law makes the... find out
[00:19:38] how well you're been
[00:19:39] represented,
[00:19:48] we've been able to build at least about about
[00:19:51] four four schools, for classrooms and blocks
[00:19:55] of classrooms,
[00:19:58] um, hospital a federal medical
[00:20:02] center annex has been brought into the
[00:20:05] federal constituency at. when we talk about
[00:20:09] schools, we have the uh solalade junior secondary
[00:20:13] school, we have the balusanosi primary
[00:20:16] school, we have the debojo uh
[00:20:20] secondary school and uh now we are still
[00:20:24] working on one or two that would be completed uh
[00:20:28] uh very soon and uh area of
[00:20:32] empowerment because used to be an
[00:20:35] algerian local government until the dispensation
[00:20:39] when lot of activities have been brought over, talking
[00:20:43] about the free trade zone, like deep sea
[00:20:46] ports, that goter refinery and all the rest.
[00:20:50] this has actually changed the
[00:20:52] occupation the people
[00:20:56] and then we need to now restrain,
[00:21:00] train and restrain people in line with the reality on
[00:21:03] ground. one, people have
[00:21:07] to be to ensure before to ensure that people get into the
[00:21:11] mainstream of most most these projects, the danguter refinery and the
[00:21:15] rest, that means we must start training our children to be engineers,
[00:21:19] chemical engineers. petroleum engineers, even people into
[00:21:22] diving because the deep sea port and all the rest, so
[00:21:26] we we started encouraging our youths to
[00:21:30] to ensure that they not just go to the university but take the right
[00:21:34] courses and in the process we also encouraging assisting them in
[00:21:38] provision of jam firms uh buseries and
[00:21:41] all the stuff financial assistance for the for the
[00:21:45] students and for the artisans there must be people who must
[00:21:49] be because "we have the largest dev real estate development
[00:21:53] too in ibejuleki because of all this uh
[00:21:56] industrialization so we've been able to do lot of uh
[00:22:00] training for them in this field working with the
[00:22:04] uh NDE Nigerian directorate of employment because if you work with
[00:22:08] them they able to give them certification trade test and some these
[00:22:11] certification that will be able to make them work in some these
[00:22:15] factories at the end the day so we be able to train
[00:22:18] at this" close to two 300 during the
[00:22:22] past few few years and
[00:22:24] also giving empowerment in terms of
[00:22:27] materials uh deep freezers fridges
[00:22:31] uh mini buses
[00:22:35] out board engines and for
[00:22:38] the for tailors and uh fashion designers
[00:22:42] too we've given them soing machines and all the
[00:22:45] accessories and uh for people in in the
[00:22:49] beauties sector to um h dressers and barbing we
[00:22:53] also being to give them their necessary kit uh we need
[00:22:57] about 1, people about two years ago to ensure
[00:23:01] that we most of our people are ready for the development coming
[00:23:04] in presently we are working on the farmers because
[00:23:08] now food has
[00:23:10] been a major problem feeding ourself like i
[00:23:13] said has the largest land mass 646 square
[00:23:16] kilometer in in in Lagos
[00:23:20] so we told our people even if you have sold
[00:23:24] land to people who are doing real estate, most them have not started developing
[00:23:27] yet, you can still work with them and farm on the
[00:23:30] land, ensure that you
[00:23:32] are only farming shrubs and vegetable,
[00:23:36] don't go into longterm i mean perenal
[00:23:40] agriculture like uh planting of palm trees and all the rest,
[00:23:44] just palm, plants, cassava, vegetable, those are things you can
[00:23:48] easily avest when come and we just distributed about
[00:23:52] 500 uh backs of fertilizer recently for
[00:23:56] the fish farmers too we're going to give them this fish
[00:24:00] tank so that we want to start with 10
[00:24:03] groups we establish 10 groups you give you the fish
[00:24:07] tanks with all the feedings and all the fish at
[00:24:10] least we monitor them if you you can prove
[00:24:13] yourself to be um
[00:24:17] to to have interest in this can start taking some
[00:24:21] individuals later, but want to start with 10 groups, so that will be 10 major
[00:24:25] tanks, i think is about 400 liters tank, that's what
[00:24:29] they use for this fish, that would take about three uh
[00:24:32] 3, uh fish each,
[00:24:36] so we're looking about that means you have 3,00 into 10, that's about
[00:24:39] 30,000 uh
[00:24:42] fishes.
[00:24:51] and that's all the time we have on the gavel this week, do send feedback to the gavel at
[00:24:55] channelsv.com and barring any last minute changes, we
[00:24:58] expect legislative activities to commence fully on the
[00:25:01] 13th of October. thank you for your time, I'm Terry
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[00:30:45] Good evening everyone and welcome to Sunday Politics live on
[00:30:49] Channels Television, I am Shakimla for you here in
[00:30:53] Abuja. The APC is getting
[00:30:56] defectors. The party received new members and