President Tinubu to flag off Renovated NASS Complex in December – president of senate

President Bola Tinubu will in December this year , flag off N30 Billion renovated National Assembly Complex , said the President of the Senate , Godswill Akpabio .

This is as the National Assembly Service Commission ( NASC) , declared end of September this year as deadline for documentation of legislative aides of the entire 469 federal lawmakers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives .

Akpabio made disclosure on flagging off of the renovated National Assembly Complex in December this year by President Tinubu on Friday while having in audience , the Chairman and members of the governing board of NASC.

” The entire Complex of the National Assembly is under renovation which would on completion, be flagged off by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in December this year .

” Aside the general renovation work, part of new edifices being put in place , is the permanent office complex of the National Assembly Service Commission and very beffiting Library Complex”, he said .

Though Akpabio did not state amount of money that had been released to contractors handling the project but the 9th National Assembly , appropriated N30billion to Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA ) for execution of the project out of which as at March this year , only N9billion was released .

The Senate President in response to request made by NASC Chairman , Engineer Ahmed Kadi Amshi on prompt documentation of legislative aides of lawmakers , assured him that the September deadline , would be abided with .

The NASC Chairman had in his address , told the Senate President and other principal officers of the Senate that end of September this year , has been fixed as deadline for documentation of aides of the 469 federal lawmakers .

He noted that documentation of Aides to the lawmakers , was very important for payment of entitled emoluments to them .

” Your Excellency Mr President of the Senate , please help us to inform the serving Senators and by extension, Hon members of the 10th National Assembly , to forward names of their appointed legislative aides to us for required documentation and payments of monthly salaries .

“The Commission has opened relevant files for this purpose and fixed September this year as deadline “, he said .

He added that within the last three years , the commission under his leadership , has promoted a total of 2, 775 staff, converted about 447 others from one cadre to the other and set code of ethics for ethical conducts of staff at all times .