Show Of Shame: Speaker, Clerk Busy Chatting As Jigawa Assembly Passes 2022 Budget

Jigawa Assembly Speaker Hon Idris Jahun and House Clerk Musa Aliyu

By Salisu K Ismail

In what appeared to be a bored sitting, Speaker of the Jigawa State House of Assembly Hon Idris Garba Jahun and the Clerk Musa Aliyu Abubakar were seen busy chatting with their mobile phones during the plenary session today (Tuesday) to pass the year 2022 appropriation bill into law by the Assembly.

Speaker, Hon. Idris Garba Jahun

During the House sitting, members of the gallery, Media reporters, and other personalities in attendance were surprised with what happened and disappointed with the actions of the Speaker and the Clerk of the Assembly who's attention were taken by their mobile phones as other members of the Assembly were sleeping during the presentation of the committee's report.

The report of the house committee on appropriation was presented at the house by Chairman of the committee Hon Suleiman Musa Kadara with little attention from the members of the Assembly.

However it was observed that, during the committee's sitting of the Assembly on the matter, Members of various committees appeared to be ignorant of the activities of their committee as many contradiction was noticed in the report.

Clerk of the house, Mal Musa Aliyu Abubakar

After a prolonged debate, observation and suggestions by members which necessitated cancellation and amendment on the local government appropriation bill, the Assembly finally passed the bill into law with some recomendations as against the earlier copied of the presented report.

The members had in the report recommended for the increase of N744 million to make constituency project allocation of N2.5 billion and equally kicked against replacing 10 year old cars of 27 local government chairmen as presented in the earlier copy of the 2022 budget.

However, Members of the gallery had carefully observed the actions and hand movement of the two principal officers as they're either charting, going through Facebook or playing games on the mobile phones.

This indicated that the speaker and the clark of the house found the sitting boring before the time when one member of the Assembly moved close to the speaker to drow his attention and concentrated

during the presentation of the three reports on the year 2022 Budget of the State, Local Governments and Child Right Bill.

It was reported that, During the sitting of the Jigawa state House of Assembly on the day of passing the three bills into law which was presided by the Speaker of the House Hon Idris Garba Jahun, Many members of the Assembly did not contributed a single word.