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From Jonas Ike, Abuja
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The House of Representatives will on Tuesday September 17, 2019 resume from its 7 weeks long annual recess embarked upon by both chambers of the National Assembly.
It would be recalled that the lawmakers in both the Senate and the House had embarked on the ongoing the ongoing recess on July 25 2019 after plenary.
Before the House was adjourned by the Speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamilla, he announced the names of chairmen and deputy chairmen of the 103 House Standing Committees.
Gbajabiamilla who was elected speaker of the 9th National Assembly on 11th June 2019 is expected to hit the ground running with a robust legislative agenda to tackle the myriad of problems bedeviling the nation.
From the checklist of the many problems facing the nation currently ranging from insurgency kidnapping, armed robbery, corruption and power failures, the House is no doubt expected to take a tough position on these issues.
It is therefore supposed take a serious resolution to tackle the issue of kidnapping that has taken millions and billions of hard earned money from hapless Nigerians who traveled along the Kaduna-Zaria highway.
The lawmakers are also expected to give teeth to and strengthen the issues of fight against corruption in government ministries, departments and agencies in the country.
Another area in which the House is expected to beam its searchlight is the asset declaration of the newly appointed Ministers who are now members of the Federal Executive Council FEC.
No doubt corruption is still the major clog to the nation’s wheel of progress, the House is expected to strengthen its oversight on all the government agencies in the country
Over the years billions of naira had been budgeted in annual budgets of government for personnel, overhead, capital project and sundry expenditures in these agencies.
The House is expected to look into the level of implementation of the 2019 budget of the federal government before its approval of the 2020 budget.
The newly appointed Chairman of the House Committees are also expected to give reports on many of the investigative hearings by the House that has been concluded with a view to exposing corruption inefficiency and waste in all the government agencies.
They are also expected to open up investigation into other high profile corruption cases in the country and investigate the recent killing of three Police officers in Taraba State by a Captain of the Nigerian Army.
Moreover, they are also expected to either take over or take a tough stand on the issue of autonomy of state legislatures since.many of these legislative houses had been enmeshed in crisis over tussle for power by some legislators who are stooges to some state governors.
They are expected to heighten the speed of passage of bills and motions and ensure timely transmission of these legislation for Presidential Assent for them to become laws.
On some some of the long standing legislation which had been passed in one chamber and is still awaiting passage by the other house, they should either give concurrence or negative them.
The lawmakers are therefore in high expectation of the Nigerian citizenry for there is need to checkmate the abuse of executive power all levels of government especially by the President and state governors of the 36 States of the federation.