The Joint National Assembly ad-hoc committee on the sabotage in the oil and gas sector of the nation’s economy will be formally inaugurated at both chambers of the federal parliament during plenary today.
The Chairman of the joint panel, who is also the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, disclosed this in a statement yesterday. Findings revealed that the inability of the two chambers to begin the four-day public hearing on the probe from Monday, September 9 to Thursday, September 12, was due to the need to properly constitute the panel in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
However, the joint panel chairman said yesterday that the probe had not been suspended but delayed allowing for the proper constitution of the panels. Bamidele said that both chambers were expecting a new Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) from the Executive, which are integral parts of yearly budget preparation, consideration, and approval.
“In the coming weeks, the Committee will hold retreats and strategy sessions, call for memoranda and organize zonal meetings on some sections of our constitution that should be amended. Given the pedigrees of all its members, this exercises no doubt promises a truly federative approach that will redefine and reinvent public governance in this country, he added.
