President Bola Tinubu is billed to commission the N30billion projects at the National Assembly in December this year.
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio disclosed this when the Chairman and members of the governing board of National Assembly Service Commission NASC visited him at the weekend.
Akpabio said, “the entire complex of the National Assembly is like a construction site now due to ongoing general renovation work and fresh projects which would on completion, be commissioned by President Tinubu in December this year.
”Aside the general renovation work, part of new edifices being put in place is the permanent office complex of the National Assembly Service Commission and very beffiting Library Complex.
Meanwhile, the NASC has given up to end of September this year as deadline for documentation of legislative aides of the entire 469 federal lawmakers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE reports that the 9th National Assembly has appropriated N30 billion to Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA ) for execution of the project out of which as at March this year, only N9billion was released.
Akpabio did not however state how much that had been released to contractors handling the project under him.
Akpabio assured that the September deadline would be achieved
The NASC Chairman, Engineer Ahmed Kadi Amshi told Akpabio and other principal officers of the Senate has fixed end of September this year as deadline for documentation of aides of the 469 federal lawmakers .
Amshi said the documentation of Aides to the lawmakers was very mandatory for payment of entitled emoluments to them, and appealed to him to inform the federal lawmakers to forward names of their appointed legislative aides to for the documentation and payments of monthly salaries .
“The Commission has opened relevant files for this purpose and fixed September this year as deadline.
