- NACS extends deadline for legislative assistant documentation for 469 federal parliamentarians until September
- Amshi informed Senate President, September deadline for aide documentation for 469 lawmakers.
Plans are well on for President Bola Tinubu to commission a number of National Assembly projects totaling N30 billion in December of this year.
Speaking on the commissioning of the projects being worked on inside the National Assembly Complex by President Tinubu and the NASC’s board of directors in December of this year.
The National Assembly’s entire complex resembles a construction site right now because of ongoing general renovation work and brand-new projects that will be officially commissioned by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in December of this year, according to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, who made the statement over the weekend.
” Aside the general renovation work, part of new edifices being put in place , is the permanent office complex of the National Assembly Service Commission and very beffiting Library Complex.
Meanwhile, the National Assembly Service Commission ( NASC) has given up to end of September this year as deadline for documentation of legislative aides of the entire 469 federal lawmakers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Even though Akpabio did not state amount of money that had been released to contractors handling the project, it is on record that the 9th National Assembly , appropriated N30billion to Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA ) for execution of the project out of which as at March this year, only N9billion was released .
The Senate President in response to request made by NASC Chairman, Engineer Ahmed Kadi Amshi on prompt documentation of legislative aides of lawmakers, assured him that the September deadline would be abided with .
In his remarks, NASC Chairman, Amshi told the Senate President and other principal officers of the Senate that end of September this year has been fixed as deadline for documentation of aides of the 469 federal lawmakers .
Amshi who noted that documentation of Aides to the lawmakers , was very important for payment of entitled emoluments to them, said, “Your Excellency Mr President of the Senate , please help us to inform the serving Senators and by extension, Hon members of the 10th National Assembly , to forward names of their appointed legislative aides to us for required documentation and payments of monthly salaries .
“The Commission has opened relevant files for this purpose and fixed September this year as deadline.”
He added that within the last three years , the commission under his leadership , has promoted a total of 2, 775 staff, converted about 447 others from one cadre to the other and set code of ethics for ethical conducts of staff at all times.
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