The seminar, which is being organised
by the Senate and House of Representatives committees on Anti
Corruption has as it's theme: 'The role of the legislature in the
fight against corruption in Nigeria' and the seminar is the first
major event jointly organized by both chambers of the 8th National
Assembly since inauguration in June 2015.
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola
Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara
will co-host the anti corruption seminar.
According to the Senate Committee
Chairman on Anti Corruption, Senator Chukwuma Utazi, "the
Seminar is to give legal strength to the anti corruption fight of the
present administration and to create legislative synergy for the anti
corruption fight".
"The seminar is aimed at making
good the promise of the National Assembly that we are on the same
page with the President Buhari led administration and in line with
the legislative agenda, that there is a synergy between the National
Assembly and the Presidency in the fight against corruption. It is to
reaffirm the point that you cannot clap with one hand. It is our way
of saying that there must be a legislative strength to back the anti
corruption stance of the present administration", Utazi said.
The keynote address of the seminar will
be delivered by Prof. P. L. O. Lumumba, Director General of the
Kenyan Law School who is also an international scholar on the issues
of corruption.
Other topics slated for discussion at
the seminar include "the Legislature as Champion of
Anti-Corruption Reforms Leveraging Constitutional Mandates"
under the chairmanship of former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Ghali Umar Na'Abba with the House of Representatives
Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, Senator Bala Ibn Na'allah, Eze Onyechere
of the Centre for Social Justice and Adetokumbo Mumuni of the
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) as
panelists.
Also slated for discussion at the
seminar is the " Reform of the Anti Corruption Legal Framework
/International Partnership Against Corruption; Nigeria's Membership
of FAFT in Focus" under the Chairmanship of the Sokoto State
Governor, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal with Hon. Pwajok Edward Gyang
(SAN), Prof. Deji Adekunle, Director General of the Nigeria Institute
of Advanced Legal Studies, Femi Falana (SAN), Ibrahim Magu, Chairman
of EFCC and Prof. Shehu Abdulahi, former Director of GIABA as
panelists.
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