‘Vote out non-performing Senators’
Gyang Dantong, a senator representing
Plateau-North has urged Nigerians to vote out non-performing Senators
in the forthcoming 2011 general elections.
Mr Dantong stated this in Jos during the
Accountability Forum organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel in Plateau
for political office holders to give account of their stewardship.
“If someone goes to represent you and he does not perform, then that person needs to be changed.
Mr Dantong also said that members of the National
Assembly were not executives but legislators who should concern
themselves with the act of lawmaking.
He said that National Assembly members were given
constituency allowances during the former President Olusegun Obasanjo
era but that the practice had since stopped.
“After that, we realised that we have no business in executing projects.
So they have stopped giving us the constituency
project allowance and up till now, the allowance is no longer given to
us.” He said.
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