LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT CRITICAL TO NIGERIA’S DEMOCRACY – Speaker Tajudeen Abbas
1. The National Assembly has a duty of holding the other arms of government accountable.
2. The National Assembly would also be accountable to the public.
3. The Government must remain accountable to the utilization of public funds and implementation of policies and laws.
4. Monitoring and Evaluation as a national policy is a framework designed as a way of institutionalising standard practices and culture of good governance in public investment and accountability towards improving the lives of the citizens.
5. The National Assembly has in the past exposed high profiled corruption cases and also helped in the recovery of stolen funds and also prevent carting away our collective patrimony.
The leadership of the country at this time is committed to deliver democratic dividends to the people and they will.