Senate president, Bukola Saraki on Tuesday, January 12 2016 said the vision of the senate is to substantially enhance the economic wellbeing, liberty and safety of Nigerians.
This was contained in the speech delivered by Saraki on the resumption of the 8th senate into the new year. Naij.com has compiled ten most important points he stated while delivering his speech. Read excerpts below.
1. Let us remember and salute the Nigerian Armed Forces and security agencies who continue to show courage, vigilance, patriotism, dedication and loyalty to the defence of our fatherland.
2. This Senate will be working together with the leading of the Executive to begin the process of rebuilding the Northeast and rehabilitating the traumatized victims of terrorism in our country.
3. In June 2015 after the elections, we started the journey to change the way we make laws by seeking to set for ourselves priorities and aspirations designed to ensure that the activities of the 8th Senate impact positively in the lives of our people.
4. Our vision is to substantially enhance the economic wellbeing, liberty and safety of our people. It is my earnest hope that the period of recess just concluded has afforded us all more opportunity to reflect on this enormous task ahead as we now enter into the business end of delivering on our agenda.
5. We must demonstrate to the Nigerian people who put us in office that we are working in their interest to ensure a progressive and inclusive national development plan. The overarching objective of our agenda remains, to work with the Executive arm to find solution to economic stagnation, wastefulness, discrimination, unemployment, insecurity, corruption and impunity.
6. I believe that working together we are able to bequeath to our country a new economy, a new vision of government, one that is able to transform our great potential to a new reality.
7. Let me use this opportunity to thank all of us for the bipartisan manner in which we have continued to carry on our legislative duties; the togetherness, commitment and resolve exhibited so far and the bipartisan support extended to the Executive towards anti-corruption and the implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which has brought some sanity in the revenue system, to the approval of the 2015-2018 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy as well as the passage of the 2015 Supplementary Appropriation Act.
8. I therefore enjoin the public to work with us and bring to our attention issues of corruption and impunity.
9. People must see and feel the impact of the laws we will pass in their communities, on their streets, and in their pockets.
10. 2016 must be a year of transparency and delivery!
