Competent Lawmakers Needed To Guide, President, Govs – Nesiama

New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP senatorial candidate for Delta South, Commodore Omatseye Nesiama (retd.) has lamented the poor capacity of the legislative branch of government faulting it for not giving the executive branch of government the needed impetus to move the country forward.

“If the Executive is not performing, it is foolhardy for the legislators to say that the government s bad, the government can be bad only when the legislature is truly bad”, Nesiama, a frontline candidate for the Delta South Senate seat said in a session with newsmen.

“If the legislators fail to perform their functions effectively and checkmate the executive, where necessary, “then we give the executive a free rein to do whatever they want to do”.

Speaking further, he said: “So when we say we have bad government, let us start with how is the legislature constituted.

“If we have a legislature that is a rubber stamp, for any bill that comes they just endorse it, then we will find ourselves where we are today. Probably worse off tomorrow.

“This is the criticality of a legislature and that is why I chose to answer the call to go into the National Assembly for the position of Senate in the Delta South Senatorial District,” Nesiama a former senior naval officer and senior official of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria, AFN told the newsmen.

Nesiama who has been endorsed by a cross section of strategic leaders in Delta South across the ethnic and political mix further lamented that Nigerians have not been paying due attention to the role of lawmakers in the national polity.

“We have not paid much attention o that area of our national political development thinking that just anybody can go to the parliament, and that is our greatest undoing”, he stated.

According to him, “The Delta South Senatorial District again is one of the most important senatorial districts in this country. It is a very viable senatorial district where things are supposed to work better. But because we have gone to sleep we allowed things to go the way they were.

“But thank God today, that it is possible or all these negatives to change and that possibility can only happen when we believe, first and foremost that it is possible”.

He said “”If we have strategic thinkers, and they put themselves into work, we won’t find ourselves where we are. And our lawmakers would be different legislators that will legislate in the best interest of the people”.

Speaking against the background of mutters arising from the recent award of oil surveillance contracts to certain individuals in the region, Nesiama said the problem of crude oil safety in Nigeria goes beyond pipeline surveillance just as he dropped a bombshell that “some of the declarations that were made about crude oil theft are lies”.

“I have operated and I can tell you. If the amount of crude oil theft that has been declared in this country every day is actually going out of this country, you come and show me the number of vessels that come into our territorial waters daily. It means we are talking of very large crude carriers.

“And in the whole of our coastal areas, the Navy has surveillance raiders that can detect any vessel coming into Nigerian territorial clean.

“So, what I will tell you for free is that most of those companies are not producing as much as they are declaring. In order to cover up their inadequacies, they shift it to crude oil theft.”

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