‘You Don’t Just Sit Because The President Wants State Police’ – Senator Ndume Demands Part-Time Senate

The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Ali Ndume, has urged the Nigerian government to make the Senate a part-time job.

Naija News reports that Ndume, during an interview on Trust TV on Friday, said the Senate and all legislators do not go to the office daily, but only during plenary sessions and at various committee levels.

Nduma further pushed for part-time roles in the Senate, where lawmakers are paid only when they have a sitting at the plenary or committee level.

He said, “To me, I said it, what are we doing? We have been on recess for several times. Let us be paid by sitting. If you sit, you get paid. If you are not sitting, you are not paid.

“And to me, we can even make the National Assembly to work part time. On Wednesday, we all assembled for an emergency meeting for this year; important national issues, that is the state policing even though I have reservations as to the speed and the way they are doing it.

“Senate is a committee of elders. You just don’t come one day, sit down because the President wants state police, you just pass it overnight.

“You are supposed to sit down, deliberate on it and get the input. We have passed the bill. Has the state police taken off today?”