May 22, 2015 : Samuel Awoyinfa
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Professor of Political Science at Babcock University, Diji Aina, has
condemned the rate at which impeachment processes were instigated
against the executive arm of government by the legislature in the
country.
The don made this observation on Thursday
in Abeokuta while addressing returning and legislators-elect of the
Ogun State House of Assembly in a seminar ahead of the May 29
inauguration.
The seminar was organised by the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria Commission.
Aina, who spoke on the topic entitled,
“Legislature and sustenance of democracy in Nigeria,” stressed that the
concept of impeachment had been abused in the country.
He
said, “We must consign to the dustbin of history the idea in the past
that anytime the legislature disagrees with the executive, especially
with the speaker, the next thing is to threaten impeachment.
“Impeachment as a tool of legislative
business today has been grossly abused to the point where if the wife of
a president, governor or speaker abuses lawmakers, they respond by
initiating an impeachment process.”
Aina, therefore, advised the legislators
to see their role as complementary and not antithetical to the executive
arm of government.
The don urged them to join the fight against corruption and defend regional agenda.
The state Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Mrs. Abimbola Akeredolu, in her speech, said
their tenure would only be meaningful if they fulfilled their campaign
promises to the masses.
She pointed out that the success or
otherwise of any democratic setting was dependent on the actions and
inactions of the parliamentarians.
The representative of the DAWN commission
in the state, Mr. Lanre Banjo, said the body is a programme management
institution set up by the six South-West states.
Banjo said that the objective of the commission was to make evolutionary idea for the progress of the region.
The Speaker of the state House of
Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi, promised that the 8th legislature would enact
laws that would be beneficial to the people of the state.
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