Constituency projects/offices: Lawmakers under intense pressure as Nigerians demand accountability

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The National Assembly has been in the eye of the storm in recent time over Zonal Intervention Projects popularly known as constituency projects and members’ failure to establish constituency office...

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The National Assembly has been in the eye of the storm in recent time over Zonal Intervention Projects popularly known as constituency projects and members’ failure to establish constituency offices where their constituents can relate with them,Nigerians have in recent time been asking critical questions about the National Assembly and the role of its members. Members of the parliament are said to have three critical roles, namely representation, law-making and oversight.

Constituency projects have been one major source of criticisms against the National Assembly. It has been traced to 2001 under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, when the leadership of the legislature, based on an unending demand for dividends of democracy by constituents, sought the approval of the executive for the identification and execution of social projects in their communities.

The issue of constituency projects, however, started to become controversial sometime in 2009 when the Senate had an executive meeting which led to a major conflict among them over the sharing formula. Currently, the National Assembly gets a lump sum of N100bn ZIPs in the annual budget. The Senate, with 109 members, gets 40 per cent or N40bn, while the House, with 360 members, gets 60 per cent or N60bn.

The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Benjamin Kalu, while making reference to Buhari’s comment, said those who should be held accountable on constituency projects are “contractors, complicit public servants and project sponsors.” A lot of them have been accused of visiting their constituencies only during festivals and major political events. Outside this, the lawmakers are accused of staying in their heavily guarded mansions, preventing their constituents from gaining access to them.

Observers of the crowds that besiege the National Assembly everyday have expressed mixed feelings about the level of interaction between representatives and their constituents.

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All I see is faces of deceit and insincerity & again a government that can't be better than their predecessors.

All I see is deceit and insincerity.

Pressure for what .... Hey it's a great lie of the century , they are the ones pressurizing our lives with bad governance

Accountability from whom,these three LAME ducks?

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