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Cordial Executive-Legislature relationship’ll make Nigeria progress -MURIC

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The cordial relationship between the Executive and Legislative arms of government is bound to Nigeria progress.

An Islamic human rights group, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, made this remark on Monday.

The group expressed the remark in support of the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, that the current legislative house was not a rubber stamp to the Executive arm of government.

MURIC, in a statement by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, said describing the legislature as a rubber stamp amounted to blackmail, a situation which he said was wrong.

The statement reads:  “We fully endorse Speaker Gbajabiamila’s comment. We commend him for coming out with such a bold declaration. Harmony between the legislature and the executive can only translate to progress for the nation. We prefer cooperation between the legislature and the executive to hostility and incoherence. What did the Nigerian citizens gain from the endless confrontation which characterized the 8th Senate? It was fully sarakitised to the detriment of tax-payers.

“Senators in the 8th NASS abandoned their primary assignments and spent the greater part of the time following the Senate president to court sessions. Lawmakers became unrepentant law breakers, established comedians and professional tree-climbers. Opportunist inheritors among them manifested a shameless capacity to out-do Michael Jackson and to jump out of windows at the approach of examination supervisors.

“Fortunately Nigerians were not deceived. The group of deceitful lawmakers were sent packing by the electorate. It is not surprising, therefore, that some miscreants, unpatriotic and unscrupulous Nigerians now make it their daily pastime to accuse the current distinguished senators of being rubber stamps of the executive. Talk of pot calling kettle black. It is cheap blackmail. We know those behind this dirty game. We also know their objective. They confronted the executive in their own time because they knew that the war against corruption would catch up with them since they had skeletons in their cupboards. Their intention was to bring down the government but they failed.

“MURIC urges the 9th Senate to ignore critics and wailers. We appeal to the current senators to continue in the same path of full cooperation with the executive. They should not allow anyone to goad them into any confrontation. We voted them into the NASS to facilitate the law making process and to promote good governance, not to constitute clogs in the wheel of progress for the executive or harbingers of pain and distress for the citizenry.”

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