The National Assembly is to introduce e-Hansard from next year to eliminate backlog of reports.
The Clerk of the National Assembly, Amos Ojo, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja while declaring open the 4th Quarter Training Workshop for staff of the procurement department.
Hansard is the record of debates of the Parliament.
Ojo called on national assembly workers to shun ethnicity, religious sentiments and infighting among themselves.
He said that the management of the 9th National Assembly would entrench training as part of its programmes to improve the skills of its workforce.
“As a product of training and re-training, I believe earnestly on the need for staff to be exposed to different types of training on-the-job, believing that a well-trained individual can never be stagnated, ignorant nor redundant in life.
“The fact of the matter is that as Public Servants under my watch as the Head Bureaucrat in the National Assembly, count yourselves as candidates for profuse training opportunities.
“As Public Servants, you need to display absolute and undiluted loyalty and commitment to your schedules in the National Assembly, believing that it is the only panacea that will make all of us succeed individually and collectively.
“We must not forget our oath of allegiance as it has sufficiently been made clear in the Public Service Rules; we must love our jobs as we love ourselves; we must shun late coming, acts of indiscipline, non-challant attitude to our duties.
“We must not allow ourselves to be pulled down or controlled by the negative doctrines of ethnicity, religious sentiments, unnecessary parochialism, backbiting and infighting.”
Ojo said that the management under his watch, would not relent in pursuing the provision of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) materials and e-Parliament for the benefit of the National Assembly.
He added, “It is a point of note that I inherited an analogue official Report Division where legislators do not have prompt access to Hansards (official records of debates in verbatim form) which is an inestimable tool in parliamentary process and practice.
“lts penitent that there are backlogs of unproduced Hansards dated back January 2020 but under the present management and in line with our e-parliament vision, legislators from next year (2021) will get e-Hansard promptly in line with world best practice.
“This will go a long way in advancing our parliamentary democracy and drawing Nigerians closer to the workings of its representatives in the National Assembly.”
