Legislative responsibility or the lack thereof, By Jibrin Ibrahim

Legislative responsibility or the lack thereof, By Jibrin IbrahimSPECIAL REPORT: Enugu community where residents rely on polluted river, deplorable PHCINVESTIGATION: TETFund’s N3.8 billion training contract triggers procurement controversy, concernsLegislative responsibility or the lack thereof, By Jibrin IbrahimLast week, I watched members of the House of Representatives bitterly complaining about the contents of the Cybercrimes Act, which they had themselves passed into law this year.

The real issue was that the National Assembly members were not aware of the content of the law they had passed and were shocked when they realised their “faux pas”. We have always known that they do not read the legislation they pass and that therefore they do not do the work we Nigerians pay them so much to do. Being a legislator in Nigeria is simply getting unto a platform to make lots of money; it is not about legislation.

I recall the shock of legislators when they realised that section 84 of the Electoral Act, 2022 barred them and political appointees from voting in party primaries. In the tradition of the Fourth Republic, party primaries are massively stuffed by political appointees and legislators who are often more numerous than the elected delegates.

No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation, except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly. “Conceptually, legislatures are the most powerful institutions in democratic regimes for a very simple reason. Legislatures are the only institutions with the power to create other powers. They have the monopoly of the powers to make laws through which they create other powers through the establishment of new commissions and agencies, the enactment of policy and the control of expenditure through the process of appropriation laws.

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