As the much awaited screening of President Muhammadu Buhari’s
ministerial nominees starts from today, Tuesday 13th October 2015, there is the need for the Senate to approach the exercise with the utmost sense of
patriotism and be totally above political and sentimental
considerations.
The Senate has tuned into the mood of the nation for a thorough screening exercise to ensure that only the best materials are cleared to serve on the Buhari cabinet and bring about the good governance we all yearn for.
For instance, the Senate has assured that former federal lawmakers on this list would not be given automatic clearance though some other minor privileges will still be extended to them in line with esprit de corps as former lawmakers. To promote probity, the Red Chamber has also pledged that all nominees must present certificates of assets declaration. This is obviously to key the Senate into the Buhari regime’s anti-graft posture.
However, the two other criteria for the screening. One is the insistence that at least two senators must support nominees from their states before the candidates are cleared to be sworn-in. The other is the application of Section 147 of the constitution, which demands that a nominee must be an indigene of the state he/she is representing.
The endorsement of at least two senators from each state in a partisan manner may deny the nation of quality ministers as this could be used as a means of laying ambush for nominees who may not be in the good books of certain political forces back home.
Again,Since the constitution insists that nominees from each state must be indigenes, what happens to women who are married outside their state of birth nominated to represent a state where they are currently married?
Let us know what you think. Make your comments below.
The Senate has tuned into the mood of the nation for a thorough screening exercise to ensure that only the best materials are cleared to serve on the Buhari cabinet and bring about the good governance we all yearn for.
For instance, the Senate has assured that former federal lawmakers on this list would not be given automatic clearance though some other minor privileges will still be extended to them in line with esprit de corps as former lawmakers. To promote probity, the Red Chamber has also pledged that all nominees must present certificates of assets declaration. This is obviously to key the Senate into the Buhari regime’s anti-graft posture.
However, the two other criteria for the screening. One is the insistence that at least two senators must support nominees from their states before the candidates are cleared to be sworn-in. The other is the application of Section 147 of the constitution, which demands that a nominee must be an indigene of the state he/she is representing.
The endorsement of at least two senators from each state in a partisan manner may deny the nation of quality ministers as this could be used as a means of laying ambush for nominees who may not be in the good books of certain political forces back home.
Again,Since the constitution insists that nominees from each state must be indigenes, what happens to women who are married outside their state of birth nominated to represent a state where they are currently married?
Let us know what you think. Make your comments below.
