NASS, Buhari working to stop corruption in Nigeria- Senator

Senator David Umaru representing Niger east senatorial district in the National Assembly has declared that both the upper chamber of the national assembly and President Muhammad Buhari are working in tandem to stop corruption in the country.

Senator Umaru said both the legislative and executive arms of the government were also seriously working together to end recession in the country.

The federal legislator made the remark in Minna on Wednesday while reacting to the demand by some All Progressives Congress (APC) youths who stormed his campaign office demanding for the resignation of the three senators from the state and the nine members of the house of representatives.

The youths have hinged their demand on the claim that the federal legislators from the state were not on the same side of the coin with President Muhammad Buhari in the anti corruption fight.

According to senator Umaru four of the bills sent to the national assembly by the executive to strengthen the war against corruption have passed the preliminary stages and would be submitted to public hearing soon.

In addition, Umaru, who is the senate committee chairman on judiciary and human rights,
said the senate had joined the executive in the investigation of the affairs of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

“There is excellent relationship between the national assembly and the executive, the senate president is not working against president Muhammadu Buhari as is being claimed by some people

“If we are enemies the national assembly would have started impeachment process while Buhari was sick and hospitalized abroad.

“There are no issues, we are together, the feud is a figment of the imagination of some people, there are things that we have handled to save the executive arm of government”.

He however said that “it is our responsibility to strengthen these institutions so that they will serve the Nigerian public the way it is supposed to be, these institutions are the creation of the constitution and they will outlive us”.

Saying that the protesters could have been spondored Umaru declared “Nobody will tell me he knows Buhari more then I do nobody can tell me he loves Buhari more than I do, I worked more than anybody to bring Buhari to power in this state, how can I be the one working for his downfall

“We all contributed to ensure Buhari wins so how can I now work against him”.

Despite the campaign of calumny against the national assembly Senator David Umaru said ,” we will continue to do our work as demanded by the law.”