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The bills cut across all sectors and touch most areas of needs in the lives of our citizens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistinguished colleagues, this will be the last plenary session that we will hold in the first half of the life of the 9th Assembly of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/09\/lawan-to-senate-panel-screen-lauretta-onochie-as-inec-commissioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Friday, June 11, we will be marking the second anniversary of our inauguration in this hallowed chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the outset of our journey, we developed a comprehensive Legislative Agenda to guide us in the pursuit of our constitutional mandates of lawmaking, representation and oversight,\u201d Lawan said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Senate has made some interventions in the course of the year to include restoration of the annual national budget to the January-December cycle.<\/p>\n<p>He said the measure had made the nation\u2019s fiscal plans more predictable and had boosted the confidence of local and foreign investors on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is noteworthy that for the first time under the Fourth Republic, the budget achieved 100 per cent implementation level in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also promised to break the jinx on the Petroleum Industry Bill and we are on the verge of doing this by finally passing the bill this month after about 20 years of failed attempts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawan added: \u201cInsurgency, banditry, kidnapping and attacks on public facilities are occurring daily in many parts of the country with our security forces stretched almost to their elastic limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo address the emergency, we passed several resolutions as part of our legislative interventions and kept engaging with the executive in order to achieve the desired outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senate president said that the Senate would consider the report of its Committee on the amendment of the 1999 Constitution, before embarking on 2021 summer break in July.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the upper chamber would commit itself to passing the Electoral Reform bill before the annual summer recess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9th Senate says it passed 58 out of the 742 bills introduced at the two sessions of the assembly. 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