With this Rural Electrification scam, how effective will the Senate be in performing its oversight duties in future?
We are still effective. On the Rural Electrification scam, we have only heard of what we have been told in your newspapers. That is all that we have read. The court has the final say; to say that A is guilty; B is not guilty. Let us wait and see. It won’t stop us from carrying on with our oversight functions. No. But the insinuation in some quarters is that what most of your committees have done with their oversight function is like blackmailing the executive to get something and that the oversight duty is not all for legislative purposes. You see, in this country, it is very convenient to say people have been induced. If any minister, or any government official has any evidence that a Senator has been induced, then let them come up with the evidence. Otherwise, it will not be fair that that is what the Senate does. May be they don’t want Senators to come and do their oversight duties, so they think the easiest way to do that is to blackmail them. But what have you been doing with the
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