The House of Representatives is set to purchase 360 cars for its members. Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Abdulrazaq Namdas (APC, Adamawa), yesterday put to rest the issue of cars’ purchase for the lawmakers.
However, he did not disclose how much will be expended on the vehicles.He disclosed that the lower chamber would buy 360 cars for members to use for various committees’ activities as every lawmaker belongs to several committees.
According to him, it would not be possible for individual lawmakers to move round all the committees at the same time during oversight functions if there are only 96 vehicles.
“Individual members belong to several committees.If you just buy one vehicle for a committee, how are they going to do? We cannot use one vehicle to cater for all the members’ committee activities.
“Every member of the National Assembly belongs to not less than seven committees. So, the mere fact that we have 96 committees does not mean 96 vehicles will be purchased,” he stated.The Senate is also planning to buy cars worth N4.7 billion.
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