Your Administration Triggers sufferness in This Country, Saraki tells Buhari

The President of Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki,  told President Muhammadu Buhari that there was much suffering across the country and that he should make solving the current economic hardship his priority.

Bukola Saraki

He spoke at the 2017 Appropriation Bill presentation by the president at a Joint Session of the National Assembly, in Abuja. According to Dr. Saraki, nothing else mattered to the suffering Nigerians who had put their fates in the hands of those currently in government than justifying the confidence reposed in them His words, "Mr. President, the feedback we get from our visits to our
constituencies is that there is hardship in the land.

 We can see it. We can feel it. This recession therefore commands all of us as government to greater essence of urgency. "We cannot work magic, we must continue to work the talk clock. Our people must see that the singular preoccupation of government is to search for solution for the current
economic hardship and the commitment to ease their burden.

They don't want to know what political party you belong or the language you speak or the God you worship. "They have trusted their fate in our hands and they need us now more than ever before to justify that trust they have imposed on us. The people of Nigeria will pardon us if we do
something wrong but they will not forgive us if we do nothing.

 "And that is why Mr. President with the two chambers have taken theirposition, whatever may be our
differences, our opinion on the issues of the economy, we will work with one common purpose for this reason.

 "I wish to reassure the President that the National Assembly will continue to seek opportunities to deepen this relationship because we are convinced that it is only by working together closely that our country can make the progress that we desire.

"It is in times like this, when we are challenged from all sides, that we need to develop new friendship, new relationships and cultivates more friends. No one can clap with one and expect to be heard. This is the time when compromise, engagement is too necessary for successful collaboration
and corporation.

 "This is why I am encouraged that Mr. President continues with his engagement plan across all sectors of stakeholders in the country particularly with our brothers in the Niger Delta and other parts of the country where stability is a part in our collective economic and security aspiration.

We assure you Mr. President and all Nigerians that not even a single minute will waste on our side in ensuring that we get the budget approved. "With this few words, I hereby invite your Excellency to deliver your speech and lay the 2017 budget proposal for the consideration of the National Assembly in accordance of section 81 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria." Dr. Saraki
said that the NASS has listed 11 Economic Reform Bills for passage and that the federal legislature would pass these Bills along the 2017 Appropriation Bill.
vanguardng reports .