As the National Assembly resumes plenary today, ex-Governor of Ebonyi State Senator Sam Egwu has said he will support emergency powers sought by President Muhammadu Buhari to fix the economy.
Egwu, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator representing Ebonyi North, cautioned, however, that such powers should be temporary to enable the National Assembly come up with a permanent situation through a bill to remove bottlenecks delaying the President’s policies.
He spoke at his Umuebe home in Ohaukwu Local Government of Ebonyi state.
The senator said: “In the National Assembly, I have set up a proposal, and I think I don’t know much about the President’s proposal, the little I read about it is power on the issue of procurement, and as former minister of Education, I am aware the process of procurement takes time”.
“There is no reason why, in trying to embark on a project, you spent three months trying to process it, you must go through a number of processes, and at the end of the day the project is suffering. So, that aspect has to be fixed, and when the President approaches the National Assembly on emergency powers to tackle this, I will support him because I like to look at things objectively”.
“We have come up with a bill aimed at removing these bottlenecks, and I think it should be a more permanent solution while the powers being sought by the President should be a temporary one until the bill is passed. So I will support that aspect”.
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