President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan has lamented that the National Assembly is incapacitated in the fight against corruption and waste of public resources because the 1999 Constitution did not give the parliament the needed legislative power to do so.
He said this Monday while responding to a lecture delivered by a former Speaker House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole at the 6th convocation ceremony of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies – University of Benin (NILDS-UNIBEN) held at the National Assembly Abuja.
Bankole’s lecture was on “Challenges of Legislative Turnover: Implications for Good Governance in Nigeria.”
Lawan said though Section 88 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) provides that the parliament shall expose corruption, embezzlement and wastes, it did not equip the parliament with the power of sanctions.
He said: “I think the reality is that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999…
