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KEHINDE AKINTOLA writes on the high and low points of the House of Represenatives in the out-gone legislative year and the issues the Lower House must address in 2021 in order to remain focused.
THE 2020 legislative year under the leadership of Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila has been a mixed grill. There were challenges occasioned by the ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. There were also occasional frictions with some observers expressing concern over the manner the situations were often managed by some of his lieutenants. Although many did not get to know about the two-time moves by some aggrieved members of the House, who pushed for the impeachment of the Lagos State-born speaker handled issues concwerning their welfare and well-being, as well as alleged breach of parliamentary practices and convention in the appointment/allocation of the two key positions of chairmen and deputy chairmen of various Standing Committees in the ninth Assembly.