The Senate has mandated the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, to hold the Rivers State National Assembly re-run elections on or before December 10. The lawmakers threatened to suspend sitting if INEC fails to conduct the polls.
Following Senate’s rejection of the external borrowing proposal from the presidency on Tuesday, the ministries of Finance and Budget and National Planning as well as the Debt Management Office, DMO, have commenced plans to represent the matter to the senate in a more detailed manner.
Senate Majority Leader, Ali Ndume has vowed to curb the reported theft and diversion of relief materials and food items donated by the federal government and other humanitarian agencies for the benefit of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the Northeast region.
The Senate has invited the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo-Udoma to throw more light on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, which formed the basis for the formulation of the 2017 – 2019 budget proposals.
Senate Majority Leader, Ali Ndume, reveals that out of the 103 trucks of grains approved by President Muhammadu Buhari for distribution to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the North east, only 53 were actually delivered while the remaining were diverted by the contractor.
The Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has dismissed the ongoing altercation between the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and Abdulmumin Jibrin, former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, as mere media hype borne out of personal differences.
