 The Deputy Speaker of the Tenth House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has assured Nigerians that the Tenth House of Representatives will ensure openness, transparency and accountability in its conduct of legislative businesses. Kalu said this during a one-day national dialogue on mainstreaming open parliament into the Tenth Assembly agenda, organized by other paper and the parliamentary monitoring organization in Abuja on his part. The executive director, other paper and chief convener, Epear, says the legislature, as the most important component of government charged with making laws for good governance and ensuring order in the society, must carry the citizenry and the civil society. With respect to this specific dialogue that you have come to join us on, we want to be able to infuse or set on the agenda of the National Assembly as it prepares and runs upon its legislative agenda. How it intends as an institution are its members as the single senators and honorable members intend to engage with citizens, not just their constituents, intend to engage that they not only infuse the interest, promote and project the interest of citizens in the legislative agenda with, I'm sure that they're already doing. How do we extend that engagement beyond just infusing the interests of citizens and constituents in the legislative agenda of the Senate and of the House of Representatives? How do we evaluate and monitor the implementation of the agenda so that such that it incorporates the principles of open calligraphy? In his response, and while declaring the event, open calligraphy represented the speaker, assured Nigerians that the Tenth Legislative Assembly will be open, transparent and accountable to the people stating that these three components are the cornerstone of any thriving democracy. This assembly is resonance in its postures of leveraging technology to streamline communication, facilitate access to information and enable meaningful engagement between citizens and the elected officials. Furthermore, by the Specter government, governance is not a mere pause word for us. No. This is the cornerstone of our legislative agenda. We intend to establish mechanisms that enable citizens to actively participate in the legislative process, ensuring definitely that their voicings are hard and their consigns are at risk. Then the legislative process provides for the conduct of public hearing, like Ed said in his opening remarks. For every public hearing, Nigerians of diverse backgrounds and fields are invited and they appear and attend these hearings, either as stakeholders to submit and make oral representation or as participants to witness or partake in the process that must be undertaken before a bill becomes a act of parliament. The activity is usually announced in the national dailies and sometimes in the electronic media for wider coverage. It is usually covered by both the print and the electronic media and in these days of the internets, the information is disseminated with the speed of light.