No legislature can legislate hunger away overnight — Akpabio’s spokesperson, Eyiboh

…Says assertion that Senate is simply a section of the enforcement “most laughable”

By Henry Umoru, Abuja

The Special Adviser connected Media and Publicity and authoritative Spokesperson to the President of the Senate, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, has said that portion the hardship facing Nigerians is existent and pressing, nary legislature anyplace successful the satellite tin legislate hunger distant overnight.

In a connection released connected Sunday titled “The Uncommon Legislative Engine: A Record of Reform from Nigeria’s 10th Senate,” Eyiboh dismissed accusations that the Senate has go a specified section of the enforcement arsenic “perhaps the astir laughable.”

According to him, legislative independency should not beryllium measured by “public quarrels” but by “productive engagement” betwixt the arms of authorities successful the coordinated pursuit of nationalist interest.

“The narration betwixt the legislature and the enforcement is not meant to beryllium adversarial theatre, but a concern for nationalist progress. The Electricity Act, the Defence Industries Corporation Act, and the Tax Reform Acts each emerged from this constructive collaboration. These are not signs of subservience but of strategical governance,” Eyiboh said.

He noted that nether the enactment of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the 10th Senate has passed much than 90 bills, with 58 already receiving statesmanlike assent — a grounds helium described arsenic unmatched since 1999.

“At a comparable stage, the 8th Senate had passed lone 32 bills, and the 9th astir 58. By each empirical measure, the 10th Senate stands arsenic 1 of the astir productive successful our annals. To statement it the ‘worst successful history’ is to wantonness information for fiction,” helium added.

Eyiboh listed respective landmark legislations — including amendments to the Electricity Act, Tax and Fiscal Policy Reform Acts, and the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act — arsenic grounds of the Senate’s reform-driven agenda.

He explained that these laws are designed to unlock authorities information successful energy generation, harmonise Nigeria’s fragmented taxation system, and grow entree to higher acquisition done the recently created Nigerian Education Loan Fund, which helium said has already benefited implicit fractional a cardinal students.

On nationalist security, Eyiboh pointed to the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons Act and the Defence Industries Corporation Act arsenic cardinal legislative responses aimed astatine tackling the basal causes of insecurity by boosting home defence capableness and regulating arms proliferation.

He besides highlighted the Senate’s organization betterment efforts done the Police Professionalism and Accountability Act, Fiscal Responsibility and Transparency Act, and the ongoing Local Government Autonomy Bill, describing them arsenic “bold steps to embed transparency, oversight, and grassroots empowerment.”

Eyiboh further noted that the Senate’s timely transition of the 2025 Appropriation Act restored budgetary bid and reinforced capitalist confidence, portion authorities connected National Minimum Wage sought to amended surviving standards for Nigerian workers.

He said criticisms equating hardship with symbolic comparisons — specified arsenic whether a senator’s woman shops successful the aforesaid marketplace arsenic an mean worker’s — miss the point, adding that ostentation and scarcity “are antiauthoritarian successful their cruelty” and indispensable beryllium addressed done dependable policy, not sentiment.

Defending Senate President Akpabio’s enactment style, Eyiboh said the erstwhile Akwa Ibom politician has brought “executive vigor into legislative purpose,” maintaining his estimation arsenic an “Uncommon Transformer” done disposable governance reforms.

“Let determination beryllium nary misunderstanding — the hardships Nigerians look are terrible and immediate. Hunger, insecurity, and joblessness stay the regular world for millions. But nary legislature anyplace tin legislate hunger distant overnight. What the Senate tin and indispensable bash is trade the instruments of reform,” helium said.

Eyiboh concluded that the 10th Senate has laid the ineligible instauration for Nigeria’s betterment and development, urging the enforcement to guarantee diligent implementation of these reforms.

“The Senate has provided the ineligible architecture. The federation indispensable present importune connected its faithful execution. When these laws statesman to alteration lives, the quiescent labour of the 10th Senate volition beryllium recognised for what it genuinely is — an uncommon legislative motor driving Nigeria’s renewal,” helium stated.

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