The Senator representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, has called on the Nigerian government to make the Senate part-time, with lawmakers paid only when they sit at plenary or committee level.
Ndume made this call on Thursday while appearing on a political program on Trust TV, maintaining that not all legislators attend the office daily, but only during plenary sessions and at various committee levels.
He said, “To me, I said it, what are we doing? We have been on recess for several times. Let us be paid by sitting. If you sit, you get paid. If you are not sitting, you are not paid.
“And to me, we can even make the National Assembly work part-time. On Wednesday, we all assembled for an emergency meeting for this year; important national issues, that is, the state policing, even though I have reservations as to the speed and the way they are doing it.
“The Senate is a committee of elders. You just don’t come one day, sit down because the President wants state police, you just pass it overnight.
“You are supposed to sit down, deliberate on it, and get the input. We have passed the bill. Has the state police taken off today?”
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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