Dr Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s senate president has stated that one major achievement of the 8th Senate in its first 100 days is laying the foundation to regain public trust.

He stated this while assuring Nigerians that under his leadership as the senate president, there will be a focus on making people oriented laws.

Reacting to insinuations in some quarters that the Senate has not been able to record tangible achievements, Saraki said: “We have kick-started the process of restoring public trust, such that the 8th Senate will only make people-oriented decisions.”

While lamenting the abandonment of a National Assembly television station which he claimed was built for N500m during the 7th Senate, he promised to find out why such a project that gulped a lot of tax payers’ money was abandoned.

The Senate President equally stated that the 2015 National Assembly budget would soon be made public, assuring that accountability and transparency would be upheld by his administration.

He pledged that the Senate will begin the screening of ministerial nominees once it receives the names from President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Nigerians deserve to know what is going on in the National Assembly and the NASS TV will go a long way (to ensure that). I was told that up to N500m was spent on it. We will look into it to find out the true situation of things. By making sure that tax payers’ money doesn’t go to waste, so we will put it to good use,” he stated.






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