The Minister of Transportation, Senator Said Alkali has urged lawmakers and the executives to be progressive partners in order to ensure good governance and effective budget process.
Alkali stated this Thursday in Abuja at the 2023 annual Legislators’ retreat with the theme, “Enhancing Good Governance through Effective Budget Process,” organjsed for members of the Gombe State Legislative Assembly.
He said that the budget process could define the size of development that can be brought about by the executive.
“I admonish you to take advantage of this unique opportunity to make the legislature a progressive partner that extends hands of fellowship to the executive arm in ensuring effective budget process for good governance of Gombe State.”
The minister said he was convinced that the choice of the theme of the retreat would discuss critical issues that would enhance their capacity for quality budget legislation and effective oversight.
Alkali noted that careful perusal of the retreat agenda vindicates this expectation, given the diversified topics that would strengthen legislative capacity for optimal performance.
“The choice of topics such as Budget Monitoring and Tracking, Operationalisation of Financial Autonomy, Bill Process, Scrutiny and Analysis as well as Techniques for Conduct of Oversight, Work Plan Development by Committees and Operations of Committee System will certainly equip the Lawmakers to acquire more skills that will make their constitutional duty easy and result oriented.”
He, however, admonished the Gombe Lawmakers to engage the resource team to share knowledge and experience on different methods of application of rules of legislative practice and procedure.
Earlier, the Speaker, Gombe State House of Assembly, Hon. Abubakar Mohammed revealed the overall aim of the 2023 retreat was to deepen the understanding of the legislators on legislative procedures and effective budget process, by enhancing their skills on modern legislative approaches towards establishing dynamic Legislature – Executive relationships for good governance.