774,000 workers recruitment: FG, National Assembly flex muscles, federal lawmakers dare Buhari

• You can only probe, you can’t order executive, minister replies legislatorsFriday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba and Leke Baiyewu

They said it was jointly conceived by the executive and the legislature. They argued that they could not be kept in the dark over its implementation.said the recruitment would not be suspended as directed by the National Assembly. According to him, the legislature has no power to issue directives to the executive.

Trouble started when the lawmakers criticised Keyamo for allegedly engaging in a lopsided recruitment without the active involvement of the NDE, the agency that got N52bn approval from the National Assembly to implement the programme. “Accordingly, the National Assembly reminds members of the public that the legislature was part of the conception of the programme, approved it and appropriated funds for its implementation as part of the COVID-19 response strategies.

He, however, said Buhari could go to court to challenge the decision of the National Assembly to halt the exercise, if he was not satisfied. “It is the totality that constitutes government; so when you are saying government is executing a programme, it is not President Muhammadu Buhari that is doing the programme, it is the government of the people.

“It cannot be left to the whims of a person or a branch of government. It has to be the totality of the government.”Meanwhile, two senators, at separate press conferences on Wednesday, lambasted Keyamo over his outbursts at the investigative hearing organised by the National Assembly joint panel. “I felt it is a very bad display of rascality. I don’t know what a senator will be doing with a job of N20,000 and N30,000, if not to make sure that it is given to people in his constituency.

“The whole world saw a lawmaker throw a microphone at me, while I sat calmly. The only thing I insisted on yesterday was for them to obey the law of Nigeria. If they want to expose anything, exposure means to be done in public, not in private.”

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