The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas on Monday assured, that the Legislative Agenda of the 10th House currently being worked out would be fashioned towards the yearnings of Nigerians.
The Speaker who gave the assurance while speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting organized by the House’ Ad Hoc Committee on Legislative Agenda disclosed that the parliament was ready to welcome citizens’ participation in the efforts towards addressing the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation
He pointed out that it was a “critical stakeholders’ meeting” to harness citizens’ input to the Legislative Agenda of the 10th House.
According to him, “our desire is to have a legislative agenda that meets the yearnings and aspirations of citizens and with which they would use as a benchmark to evaluate and assess our performance after four years. Therefore, today’s meeting should not be seen as the usual talk-shop. Consider it a critical national assignment.
There is no better way to show that the 10th Houses of Representatives is ready to respond, and urgently too, to the yearnings of those who brought us to the people’s House to do the people’s business,” he noted.
