The acting Clerk of the National Assembly, Sani Tambuwal, has assured National Assembly Legislative Aides of meeting their demands with regard to remuneration.
He gave the assurance in Abuja, on Wednesday, at the 2022 Induction/Orientation programme for legislative aides to senators and members of the House of Representatives.
The event was organised by the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) with the theme, “Basic Lawmaking Processes and Procedures for Effective and Efficient Legislative Aides Performance.”
The acting clerk said that the workshop was timely and apt, taking into consideration and understanding the basis of lawmaking processes and procedures which were among the core roles of legislative aides.
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“The role of aides in the legislature revolves around analysing constitutional provisions and drafting letters. This shows clearly the need to undertake this induction/training programme toward value addition to self, legislators, constituents and our dear country,” he added.
On his part, the Executive Chairman of NASC, Mr Ahmed Amshi, said that the commission had over time, taken the issue of training and retraining to develop the capacity of staff and personal aides to lawmakers.
“It is not the lawmakers that always prepare the laws; it is you, aides that prepare everything for the lawmakers. This is to enable your principals so that they can be equipped to stand in the assembly and deliberate on the processes of lawmaking in the assembly,” he said.
Amshi who was represented by Senator Abubakar Tutare, a commissioner, however, assured the aides of conducting the workshop more than once a year.
