 As a speaker right Honourable Tajuddin Abbas on Monday unveiled the then Legislative House needs assessment report at a Development Partners stakeholders meeting in Abuja. The report is a fallout of the partnership arrangement reached at the toilet of the leadership of the family of Baja Biamila-led Ninth House and Development Partners on ways to improve the capacity of lawmakers in addressing development issues in the country. The capacity and effectiveness of parliamentary institutions in the country. The program focuses on strengthening the national assembly by providing support, training and technical assistance to parliamentarians and parliamentary staff in areas such as legislative drafting, policy analysis, budgeting, oversight, representation, etc. It is intended to harness parliamentary development programs whose objectives may include strengthening democratic governance, legislative reform and policy advocacy, strengthening parliamentary procedures and practices, enhancing oversight and accountability, and strengthening parliamentary administration. The speaker right Honourable Tajuddin Abbas, who was represented by the Deputy Speaker, right Honourable Benjamin Kalu, says the document is in line with the French Legislative Agenda, which is to uplift the legislative standard of the National Assembly and to ensure transparency and accountability in legislative business. This is in line with our legislative agenda, which identifies the strengthening of internal capacity of the legislature as a critical factor towards achieving all that legislative objectives. As a result, the document before us today reflects our current capabilities and the urgent requirements needed to elevate the standard of our legislative functions. The need for continuous capacity strengthening in the legislature is more known to us all. The high turnover rates at the National Assembly pose a significant challenge to maintaining continuity and building on the institutional knowledge that is crucial for effective governance. While acknowledging that the document is a work in progress, the development partners agree that the documents will improve the quality and capacity of legislation going forward. The partnership will further improve the relationship between the House and the civil society organization in addressing capacity gaps for the growth and development of the country. This is what I have talked about getting involved in national development discourse. The second language is that expanding the circle of support to include non-traditional intervention providers. Now we are talking about engaging with organized private sector. We're talking about the land profits. We're talking about civil society, even within the national economy that can engage with the National Assembly. But more importantly, with respect to capacity, there has been a redevelopment of capacity that is not only the honorable members that need capacity. The personnel, the staff need capacity. Even the citizens that want to engage with the House also need capacity. And if you have this elaborate notion of what capacity may be, it will be easy for us to have an understanding. As the UNDP, as the Global Lead Development Agency with a mandate of governance and support to parliamentary institutions, will continue to support the legislative agenda and the government of Nigeria to fulfill their obligations to the citizens. I would like to wish everyone here well today in our collective effort to coordinate and operationalize. It is that Kass is convinced that the needs assessment that will be presented today will definitely serve as a solid and robust foundation to implement the legislative agenda, which is of course what we are all about and what we are set out. And I also want to take off what Prof. just said, that this is a work in progress, this is a living document, so let's fill it with life and let's keep it alive, please. And the third and last point is that we need to be clear that we need to make monitoring of the legislative agenda and monitoring the recommendation a priority for all of us. The current I don't know which truly from the bottom of my heart very grateful for this opportunity that we need face to face leadership. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.