ADHA TRAINS 25 MEMBERS- ELECT ON LEGISLATIVE DUTIES

Adamawa State House of Assembly has organised a 2 Days Training Workshop on the legislative processes for the 25 members elect for the 8th assembly. News Platform.

The workshop was organised by the assembly primarily to induct the new members on the legislative processes, procedures and practice.

Speaking while declaring the workshop open on Wednesday, the Speaker of the assembly, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, said that induction training is a long-standing tradition of the assembly.

Rt. Hon. Iya Abbas, explained that an assembly organizes an induction programme for members-elect at the beginning of every assembly to acquaint them on their duties as legislators.

The Speaker who was represented at the event by the Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Pwamwakeno Mackondo(Numan), said that the papers lined up for presentation were carefully selected to meet the immediate need of a legislator upon assumption of duties.

He explained that the legislature largely depends on rules and procedures, and every member is required to equip himself with these rules in order to function effectively. 

He tasked them to develop a keen interest in the training by listening attentively to the resource persons so that legislative duties will not be new to them on assumption of office.

According to him, the event will provide them with essential information about the objectives, goals, rules and responsibilities of a legislator, and urged them to utilize the opportunity to develop themselves in order succeed in performing their duties.

In his paper titled, "Practice and Procedure of Passing a Bill into Law" the Director National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies(NILDS), National Assembly, S. A. Danwanka(Ph.D), commended the organisers of the event.

Danwanka, however exposed the members elect on the functions of the parliarment, overview of the Nigeria Legislature, functions of a legislator, types of bills, stages of the legislative process and challenges of legislative process.

He taught the participants on law making, how to hold government accountable, executive and private member bills, 1st, 2nd, committee level and 3rd reading of a bill and assent among others.

He identified time, delay in reporting referrals, funding, technical capacity, motivation, working apparatus, poor legislature-executive relations, committee system and under -utilization of legal/drafting officers as some of the challenges affecting legislature.

While presenting his paper entitled, " Opening a New Parliament and Introduction to Standing Orders", the Clerk to the assembly, Umar Usman Hamidu Laleh, said that the 1999 Constitution provides for the estasblishment of the assembly.

The Clerk told them that an assembly stands dissolved at the expiration of a period of 4 years commencing from the date of its 1st sitting, saying that the executive governor shall issue proclamation for the holding of the 1st session of the assembly.