Opposition? It’s not PDP’s duty to nurture one

–Sen Ndoma-Egba

Excerpt from an interview with Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, Chairman, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on the Freedom of Information Bill (Sunday Sun newspaper, September 3, 2006. Page 10)

 What has become of the Freedom of Information Bill?

 If you listened to the Senate President’s remarks, it is the first bill he said would be deliberated upon on resumption. I happen to chair the Senate ad-hoc committee on the bill. In the next few weeks, we’ll complete our report. We have one or two more meetings to get the report ready for presentation to the house. This Senate is committed to passing the bill. Our concern is high reform content or value-bills that will help change the way we have been doing things in the past and institutionalize the way things ought to be done now and in the future. So, all those bills that are geared towards institutionalizing the various reforms be they economic, political or social are those that will engage us now. The reason is that we want reforms to survive this regime. We don’t want a situation whereby regime change will necessitate policy change.