Daminabo commends Acting Clerk’s performance at opening ceremony of 2022 PASAN week, asks outgoing Clerk to retrace his steps

A former Director of Information and Publications as well as spokesperson for the National Assembly, Monima Daminabo, has commended the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Sani Mogaji Tambuwal, for demonstrating capacity in leading the parliamentary staff members following the latter’s performance during the opening ceremony of the 2022 PASAN WEEK ceremony.

Daminabo described Tambuwal’s outing as ‘simply sterling’ as the latter delivered a rousing speech which heralded the thrust of his incoming administration.

The speech was followed by a standing ovation from the staff members of the National Assembly.

Daminabo also called on the outgoing Clerk to the National Assembly, Amos Ojo, who has vehemently refused to vacate office to give way for Tambuwal to settle down, to retrace his steps in the course of his sit-tight agenda.

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Ojo had declined to proceed on his statutory three-month pre-retirement leave which was due on November 14 2022, which is three months ahead of his terminal date of February 14 2023.

According to Daminabo, Mr Ojo had refused to comply with this statutory condition of service, and had since been coming to office to attend to files and preside over meetings with staff members.

Daminabo claimed that the situation as reported to him by concerned staff members was brewing tension in respect of which he had appealed to the staff members to exercise restraint.

He said he had also called on other well-meaning Nigerians to intervene and appeal to Ojo to stop desecrating the sanctity of the hallowed precincts of the country’s central legislature.

Short of calling Ojo’s ambitious a venture bordering on deliberate mischief, Daminabo wondered what the former hopes to gain by his enterprise.

“The National Assembly is not a private company or estate of anybody to be treated with disrespect and lawlessness.

“It is a national heritage and needs to be considered as such. With respect to the report that the President of the Senate had directed the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC), to reverse the letter it had issued Ojo to commence his terminal leave, all that needs to be said is that with due respect to the Presiding officer of the Senate, that directive is illegal.

According to the law setting up the NASC, the President of the Senate, along with any other authority, “is statute barred from interfering with the powers and decisions of NASC,” Daminabo added.