Motions

THE SENATE INFORMED that the Federal Government granted Oil Prospecting licences 915 & 916 to Orient Petroleum Resources to explore and exploit the natural oil resources located in an area historically owned by the Igala-speaking communities located in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, viz, Igga, Ojjor and Ogurugu; and Odeke and Echeno communities in Ibaji LGA of Kogi State, with peripheral lay-over to AguleriOtu, in Anambra State. FURTHER INFORMED that the whole acreage area of OPL915 & 916 … Read More

THIS SENATE: Observes that the AkanuIbiam International Airport in Enugu was upgraded to the status of International Airport on August 24, 2013. Notes that the upgrade of the airport was a fulfilment of the dreams of the people of South-East of Nigeria who are famed entrepreneurs and have long clamoured for direct flights to parts of the world where they engage in myriad of commercial activities in order to cut costs associated with logistics and distance. Notes that as an … Read More

THIS SENATE: RECALLS THAT sometime around December 2016, Hon. Justice Godwin Ononiba, retired Chief Judge of Anambra State leading 31 other retired Judges, sued the Governor of Anambra State to the National Industrial Court for non-payment of their severance gratuities, their pension and arrears of pension. WORRIED that the suit above is indicative and a reflection of the depressing plight of retired Judicial Officers, especially Judges of the State High Courts in Nigeria. AWARE THAT the appointment of Judges of … Read More

THIS SENATE NOTES that Dams and Reservoirsare used for irrigation, water supply, hydro-electric power generation or some combination of two or more of such uses. NOTES that the importance of Water to life on earth cannot be quantified. OBSERVES that across the country, there are Dams and Reservoirs that are leveraged towards service delivery to the people of the catchment area. INFORMED that the South-East geo-political zone of Nigeria is in acute shortage of water supply as a result of … Read More

THIS SENATE: Recallsthat a resolution was passed in this House following a motion I moved on tackling the perennial conflicts between herdsmen and settled farmersin which I warned the nation of the threat posed by nomadic Cattle herdsmen to settled farm and land owners and prayed the nation to move fast to avert any further escalation of the conflicts. Aware that around 4.am in the early hours of Monday, the 25th April, 2016, Fulani cattle herdsmen in their numbers, armed … Read More

THIS SENATE: AWARE that the Downstream Sector of the Petroleum Industry is concerned with the supply and distribution of petroleum products to Government and Private Depots and Tank Farms from which the products are trucked to filling stations across the country for sale to the consuming public. NOTES that following a high incidence of vandalism of petroleum products pipelines under the supervisory custody of  the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of NNPC, across the country, especially those pipelines … Read More

THIS SENATE: NOTES that conflict between settled farmers in various parts of the country and nomadic cattle herdsmen is posing grave danger to national security, harmonious communal life and national unity. NOTES the perennial reports of one form of conflict or another every day between these two economic groups across the country from the East, to the West, to the Middle Belt and to the Northern parts of the Country. Only recently, many people were killed in Abbi, in Uzo-Uwani … Read More

THIS SENATE: NOTES that the EGMONT GROUP is a network of national financial intelligence Units and is the highest inter-governmental Association of intelligence agencies in the world, with about 152 Member Countries or State Parties who sit regularly for the purpose of sharing criminal intelligence and financial information bothering on money laundering, terrorism financing, proliferation of arms, corruption, financial crimes, economic crimes and such-like offences geared towards the support of local and international investigations, prosecutions and asset recovery. INFORMED that … Read More

THIS SENATE: ACKNOWLEDGES that corruption is a major governance challenge in Nigeria, a huge disincentive to the development of Nigeria and one of the greatest enemies of the Nigerian nation. AWARE that corruption in Nigeria is a cankerworm that has deeply embedded itself into the fabrics of the nation and has created a system of cronyism which discourages enterprise and merit, enthrones mediocrity, compromises the moral fibre of the society, undermines time-honoured values and spreads poverty. ACKNOWLEDGES that the administration … Read More