Showing posts with label National Assembly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Assembly. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

National Assembly ignores the Constitution

On March 20, 2012

THE National Assembly should be more reticent  when making laws. Its tendency has been to make laws for their sake or to please the Executive. In the process it ignores the Constitution. The Central Bank Act 2007, which may soon be a subject of legal dispute, is a good example.
It became law on 25 May 2007, days to the end of the Obasanjo administration. Its efforts at creating a new Central Bank, succeeded largely in the emergence of an organisation that acquires some powers of the National Assembly.