NLC Wants Smooth Impeachment Processes

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for reduction in the time and process of impeachment of the President and Vice President by the National Assembly.

The President of the Congress, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, made the call in Abuja at the National Assembly during a recent public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Ad hoc committee on the review of the 1999 constitution on 10 bills.

The NLC president was represented by an official of the union, Comrade Benson Uppah who said the current process and time for the impeachment of the president and his vice was cumbersome and not intended to achieve its aim.

He faulted the frequent friction between the Executive and the National Assembly over invitations and resolutions passed by the legislature.

Omar called for the strengthening of the National Assembly as the hope of the people and urged it to ensure that any person who refused to honour its invitation is punished.

“Refusal by invitees to appear before the National Assembly is an insult to this great institution,” he said.

On the proposed direct funding for the Police and National Security Agencies, Omar said that under funding of the institutions was dangerous to national security.

He urged legislators in the lower chamber of the National Assembly to carry out a ‘diagnostic evaluation’ of yearly performance of the budget.