Parliamentarians are most criticised, Lasun

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Sulaimon Lasun, yesterday lamented the ordeal the legislative arm of government is going through in the discharge of its duty.

Hon Sulaimon stated this, while receiving a delegation of the FCT children's parliaments led by the Speaker, Hon Oragrand Nwaka, as part of the children's day celebration.

"Our is probably the most criticised arm of any democratic setting. It is the most criticised.

"People ask, what do they do? They are just making noise. They are just collecting money. But I can tell you that in the last one and half months,
I have not had a sleep of five hours.

"Coming from the disagreement on the budget where I was made the chairman of the sub-committee to rework it and for almost eight days, I never had sleep of three, four hours in a particular day.

"Yet to the public, when we go to the chamber to conduct our business in the open, people think we are playing there.

"But for those Nigerians who are interested in what we do, no day will pass without you picking something that is important and relevant to the development of Nigeria.''

According to him, it is a job that one is not allowed to do any other private job.

He said "if you are a parliamentarian, the day you are voted and sworn in, you are not allowed to do any other job apart from the parliamentarian job and your constituency will be expecting you to work.

"The Nigerian public will be expecting you to be upright and be up and doing; they will expect you to solve all their problems, even those ones that you did not create.

"That is the position of the parliamentarian.''

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