Senate has assured that it will continue to consider concurrence bills sent from the House of Representatives, just as the Green Chamber also considers Senate bills.
Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, made this assurance during plenary on Tuesday, reacting to a recent report from the House of Representatives.
Bamidele emphasized the Senate’s commitment to giving attention to every bill from the House, overriding public interests.
“We have always passed House bills for concurrence. And only last week, this Senate concurred with six bills from the House of Representatives,” he said.
“The Principle of Chamber Reciprocity does not necessarily mean for us garbage in, garbage out.”
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, also assured that the Senate would attend to more concurrence bills from the House.
“We attended to about six of those bills last week, and this week, we’ll attend to more. It takes two hands to clap, and we’ll continue to work together,” he said.
The Senate’s assurance comes after the House of Representatives rejected a bill from the Senate seeking its concurrence, expressing frustration over the Senate’s alleged disregard of over 146 bills already passed by the House.
