Members of the 7th legislature of Anambra state have unanimously concurred that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever for the legislative and executive arms of government to be in acrimony but rather relish the inter-governmental relationship currently existing between them.
These were the opinions of some members of the state assembly who spoke on the relationship between the two organs of government, following the commemoration of the one year anniversary of the current state assembly.
Dr. Carter Dike Nnamdi Umeh who represents Aguata one state constituency, noted that the three arms of government were independent of each other but stressed that in spite of the independence, they all worked in synergy for the progress of the state.
Umeh stated that contrary to insinuations that the 7th state assembly was a stooge of the Obiano regime, he said the legislature had fared very well in the last one year coupled with the fact that president Muhammadu Buhari had signed an executive order for the full implementation of separation of powers for the three organs of government as well as financial autonomy.
He was of the view that one of the most striking bills the 7th assembly passed into law was the new Anambra State Burial Law. The lawmaker said the law would help mitigate incessant expenditures on burial rites when someone died as well as address excesses inherent in burial ceremonies.
The lawmaker, who maintained that he has deposits of effective representation of Aguata one state constituency, said among other monumental accomplishments in the last one year, he did first, second and third palliative programmes in the nine wards of his constituency in this Covid-19 pandemic.
Umeh therefore urged Anambra citizens to gear up for another legislative year because the state assembly was poised to make more people-oriented laws.
Onitsha-South one state constituency representative, Mr.Uzoma Eli, who opined that the last one year was a learning process for him, said retrospections of last year would foster more robust legislative dealings going forward.
Eli also observed that laws were not cosmetics and that whatever resolutions the state assembly reached was geared towards achieving a particular goal even as he emphasized that no goal was more striking than the other.
The Onitsha-South one representative further disclosed that as a strategic measure to tackle the menace of the coronavirus infection, the House of Assembly enacted the Covid-19 law as a preventive measure to contain the pandemic.
He also urged Ndi-Anambra to expect more laws, more resolutions and more needs to be met in the new legislative year even as he reassured his constituents of a more result-oriented representation.
On the issue of the 7th assembly allegedly being a rubber-stamp of the executive, the lawmaker noted that the current legislature can not be said to be a stooge of the state government and that neither will lawmakers stand up during plenary to insult or cast aspersions on the governor for no tangible reasons.
Eli said, “We cannot say Obiano is an idiot. That is not why we are here. We can have a harmonious working relationship born out of mutual respect for each other. Most times, what people want is for you to go fist in hand and then begin to fight. That’s not representation! Its unparliamentary to carry placards!”
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