THE PARLIAMENT!

LASUSU SPC REMOVES TRANSPORT SECRETARY
These are not the best of times for the Lagos State University Student Parliamentary Council (LASUSU-SPC) as the recently appointed secretary of the transport committee was on Friday 8th April 2011 removed in a case of financial misconduct and mal appropriation.
It was revealed exclusively to BlackBox that the secretary who is the immediate past Speaker of the Faculty of Science Students Representatives Council, Mukaila Wasiu declared the sum of 30,000 for a trip outside the country which ought to have amounted to 150,000. He was also accused of deceiving other members of the transport committee that the bus was going to Badagry while in actual fact it travelled to Benin Republic and Ile Ife in Osun state.
It was alleged that honourable Mukaila received more than he declared and this infuriated the majority of the house who demanded for his immediate removal as secretary.
In a heated debate which lasted for several hours and which also had the Lasusu President, Lai Adebayo and some cabinet members (also respondents) in attendance, honourables on the floor of the hallowed chambers agreed that the SPC would only be justified in its obligation to check the excesses of the Executive in Council if only the house is sanitized of matters relating to graft.
The house in making its decision agreed that Hon. Mukaila Wasiu be removed as secretary of transport committee and also suspended indefinitely on the floor of the house until he pays up the differences of the money he declared.
Further investigations by BlackBox revealed that the trip which the bus was used fo was a field trip involving students of zoology department where Mukaila is a final year student and that 70 students attended the 7days trip with each student paying 10,000 each. This means, a sum of 700,000 thousand was gotten for the trip which took them for Benin Republic and Osun state.


BITS FROM THE HOUSE
HONORABLES GET CALL ALLOWANCE: This parliament really seems to be ready to go places with new innovative being introduced into the legislative settings. The first was the inaugural sitting which was set at properly integrating the honourables to legislative duties, then the provision of the Lasusu constitution to all Faculties. Now the speaker is at it again as penultimate week saw honourables being given a substantial sum of money for recharge cards to make phone calls. It is indeed another step towards the right direction and we hope this continues to ensure honourables also get dividends of the ‘ALUTA CAKE’
POINT OF ORDERS: A new visitor to the Lasusu SPC would be shocked with the level of unruliness which sometimes plagues the house. Infact, one major issue that has aided this is the way honourables cite the POINT OF ORDERS on one another. If an honourable dare make a mistake either in following protocols or in addressing the house, the shout of ORDER! would almost deafen your ears. The pathetic thing is that some (un)Honourables don’t even know why orders are cited yet they shout order given any opportunity. Honourable speaker, deputy speaker, honourable cle*** ORDER! Order of what? I no know

PATRICK OBAYAGBON IN SPC: Anyone who has followed the Nigerian national assembly in recent times would obviously know the gentleman who represents one of the Federal constituencies in Edo state, Hon. Patrick Obayagbon. Now what’s peculiar about this man is a not just his funny fashion sense but what comes out of his mouth, as in his grammatical vocabulary is highly pronounced to the extent when he now uses Latin as a dilution to English.
Already, to many he is becoming a sought of legend and it is not surprising to find youths trying to emulate him by using ambiguous and gigantic grammars which cannot be easily downloaded by the receiver. One these apostles is Hon. Masari from Education Constituency in the Lasusu SPC who have mastered the mode of mimicking the Edo Barrister to a level where his calling upon in the Lasusu SPC leads to other honourables listening in rapt attention and some others in total disgust.
INFORMATION: Information is powerful, COMMUNICATION is defined as a simple passing of message to a receiver and any unclear or ambiguous grammar is referred to as NOISE in communication. Hon. Masari! Stop making noise.

MUCH ADO ABOUT SPC COMMITTEES: it is alarming the rate at which committees are set up in the house. Infact, every issue has a committee but the annoying thing is that non of these committees are functioning except the transport and taskforce standing committees. With due respect to the supreme Lasusu constitution, the standing committees are quite essential but the level at which the house establishes ad-hoc and sub committees is an issue worth discussing. The committee set up to look into the issue SJC is yet to begin work, Honourables committee, pure water committee etc. The house even has a committee for refreshment. lol

ILLEGAL HONOURABLEs: it has been alleged that the Lasusu SPC is occupied by all sought of people, both those who are qualified and those who aren’t. It was even revealed that some of the honourables have questionable G.Ps which do not meet up to the required points. Already as you might want to guess, the speaker has set up a committee to look into it.

MR. SPEAKER, AM I MAD
During his campaign, he was known to have used ambiguous vocabularies which are synonymous to his size. Well, I wouldn’t bore you with rhetoric but we all remember the Bros who told us “ your absolute welfarism is my uttermost concern”. Okay now that the elections are over, the legislative arm was unexpectant of what hit it the other day when some executive members were summoned. So it was asked why the Lasusu officer was acting pompous or perhaps he thought his office was bigger than the house. To this he had this to say, “my powerful honourable speaker, my very eloquent deputy speaker, my efficient clerk and my gigantic honourables, I can never, I will never and I shall never say that a W******E director is bigger than an honourable. AM I MAD . . . ? Perhaps