Outages ‎force Reps to shut down proceedings 

Proceedings at the House of Representatives were disrupted on Thursday due to ‎frequent outages.

The development forced presiding Deputy Speaker, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha, to adjourn the plenary of the House till Tuesday next week.

The outage affected the air conditioning system of the chambers, leaving lawmakers sweating profusely each time it occurred. 

Members, who had motions, bills and other issues to present, also found it difficult to work as the discomfort in the hot chamber became unbeatable. 

Our correspondent observed that the problem started before Thursday’s session got underway around 12noon.

The lights were restored briefly as soon as Ihedioha and other principal officers settled down for work, but went off again almost immediately.

He tried to continue with the business of the day amid the power interruptions.

At a point, the deputy speaker‎ calmed members by explaining that the electrical system had some faults, which were being traced.

Lawmakers reacted to his explanation by shouting, “the beauty of transformation.”

Several others, apparently from the camp of the All Progressives Congress, mouthed “change will take care of all this.”

The public gallery was full at the time of opening the House on Thursday, but with the heat growing stronger in the enclosed chamber, the visitors left one after another.

Children, who came from the American International School, Abuja, to observe the proceedings of the day, also hurriedly left the place due to the unbreakable heat.

Ironically, some of the visiting children were children of some of the lawmakers. 

Some of them stood up to identify them‎selves as parents when the children were announced to be among the visitors of the day.

The National Assembly has of late been grappling with keeping infrastructure like ‎water, power and elevators running efficiently. 

Findings indicated that alleged “funding challenges” and huge expenditure to run heavy generators in the absence of dependable public power, had drained resources in the last six months. 

The National Assembly, its bureaucracy and the National Assembly Service Commission had a budget of N150bn in 2014 to run services, pay salaries, running costs and allowances of senators and members of the House.

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Too bad

Lost for words

GenBuhari:
Lost for words

Is America responsible?

There isn't light in our laboratories but we still go to school! Hospitals don't have light but they still treat the sick! These wasteful legislators that do nothing for most part of the year and collect huge salaries just gave themselves two days holiday cos of outages? They must be mad!

ok o....

Afterall , its not a new thing

We don hear you....

gus

Just to book space. Enough front page for tonight. No be only me waka come

Everything gonna be alright comes june.I believe in change,i believe in GMB.If you believe in GMB lemme hear you say baba lole shey(na baba fit do am)
Anyway keep calm and vote www.nairaland.com/twaci as Miss NL.
Remain blessed

They should go borrow to buy fuel

Shebi, Iweala said we are not broke?

Useless set of people. I've been buying diesel on a daily basis now
They bring bill of N25k as if i have a bakery.

It was never this bad since i've been coming home.

chemali:
There isn't light in our laboratories but we still go to school! Hospitals don't have light but they still treat the sick! These wasteful legislators that do nothing for most part of the year and collect huge salaries just gave themselves two days holiday cos of outages? They must be mad!

seconded.

these pple must be mad. So bcox of power outage they shut down proceedings? Imagine, Millions of Nigerians (common pple) have been without power for almost 2weeks now even more dan dat in some places, yet we still go to work and do tinz we ought to do.

Transformation in full force.

Up NEPA!!

That moment when you suffer the venom of your own ineptitude. These are people who could make laws to regulate power distribution in Nigeria. It's so sad. How can there be power outage in a legislative chamber? In Africa's supposedly largest economy and one of the largest exporters of crude oil in the world? I'm not even talking about power outage in the house of the common man now - that's a much worse case-. This is in the Pearl of power itself. May God help us all.

We went to school and passed all our exams with only candle light, we didn't die.

We go to hospitals and they ask you to go and buy candle/lantern, we survived.

Just a common heat because of no a/c, and they are complaining. What a country. Good for them.

SHAMELESS OLD FO0LS.
ROGUES.
THUNDER FIRE GEJ AND OBJ FOR STEALING OVER 40 BILLION DOLLARS ON THIS BULLSHİT POWER PROJECT SINCE 1999.

I've not had electricity from PHCN for about 3months now, and I seem not to care anymore.

These members of the house of thievery should get used to it.

No be today.

I'm too busy laughin I dnt even knw wt to write

and PDP FANATICS says GEJ is transforming to be a better place if house of rep don't have electricity where is the hope for an ordinary Nigerian ...may God reward you and all you brought to Nigeria PDP

Good for them.They should taste also what the poor masses face on daily basis.These people havr milked and have continued to milk our country.Lazy bunch of looters.

chemali:
There isn't light in our laboratories but we still go to school! Hospitals don't have light but they still treat the sick! These wasteful legislators that do nothing for most part of the year and collect huge salaries just gave themselves two days holiday cos of outages? They must be mad!

nah! We mad and not them.

why not fire outbreak...useless non-patrotic human BEANS.. Eh ya for they dissappointed kids

N150bn 4 salaries and services?
This lawmakers are national milkers .

Bunch of thieves... Their salaries should be slashed by at least 80%.

good for them most of the senate has generator importers company.