The Chairmen, Joint Senate and House of Representatives committees on Land Transport, Senator Gbenga Ashafa and Hon. Aminu Isa, have stated that oversight functions being carried out by the Legislature should not be interpreted as witch-hunt.
The duo stated this during a working visit of the joint committees to the headquarters of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) in Lagos.
According to Ashafa, “The joint Senate/House committee on Land Transport is conscious of its enormous responsibilities as provided for in the extant Senate/House standing orders, which covers the ministry, departments, agencies including annual budgets and oversights of the MDAs.”
Ashafa who congratulated the Managing Director of NRC on the recent confirmation of his appointment, said, “The committee is aware of the numerous challenges of the Nigerian Railway Corporation and is determined, with the support of the Senate/House leadership, to take necessary legislative actions to address the aspect of the challenges requiring our interventions hence the need for this oversight visit to enable us review how the finance of the corporation as being managed so far in the current budget cycle in order to note what augmentations need to be made in the 2017 budget cycle.”
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