N30bn Renovated Senate Chamber Without Voting Devices, Resembles Conference Hall — Ndume

The renovation work done in the Senate Chamber has been criticised by Senator Ali Ndume.

The Senate Chief Whip who described it as a poor job, said, stated that it lacks essential amenities such as voting devices and resembles more of a conference hall than a legislative chamber.

Osun Defender reports that the Senate and the House of Representatives moved back into their main chambers, which had been under renovation since 2022, costing over N30 billion to refurbish.

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Ndume who spoke in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, said the Chamber is fraught with inadequacies such as poor sound system, evident in the echoes, poor sitting arrangements, amongst others.

He said, “Since day one, precisely last week Tuesday, when we moved into this Chamber that supposed to have been renovated, there have been complaints here and there.

“The first was on seating arrangements, followed by the echoing of voices by microphones that are even not audible. There is no voting device; the required facilities are not yet provided. We need to correct all these anomalies for the Hallowed Chamber to be what it is supposed to be.”

Reacting to Ndume’s argument, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, however, explained that complaints on sitting arrangements among Senators have been sorted out 99.9%.

Akpabio said the contract for the renovation work was not done by the 10th National Assembly.