"I NEVER ACTED UNCONSTITUTIONALLY" - President Garrick Nosa

• Swears in Members of Congress 

• Sheds light on operation of office without being sworn in

 • Says that Congress and the Presidency are not enemies

 • Issues warning to mischief makers

President Garrick

The President of the Law Students Association (LAWSA) UNIBEN, has debunked rumours linking himself to acting unconstitutionally and away from his Executive powers by conducting and interfering with elections within Parliament. Speaking to Congress members and observers at the Inaugural Congress sitting on Friday 27th November, 2015 the President read from Section 17 of the LAWSA constitution and drew attention to its provisions

 "The President conducting elections within Congress is not a new thing, it didn't start today. If you have noticed there is a lacuna in Section 17 of the LAWSA Constitution. While it gives the duty of presiding over the inaugural sitting of congress to the president, it doesn't say who to conduct elections, thus the President over time has always conducted congress executive elections. It is in recognising this that I decided to invite an independent body which is the LAWSA Eleco to conduct the elections."

     The President while making this statement expressed hope that this will be corrected when the time comes as they must have made such promises when they declared their manifestos to their various constituencies. He also shed light on elected excos assuming executive functions without being sworn in. According to Garrick, the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Richard Idubor has been really busy for the last 2 months and as such has had no time to swear in the elected excos ceremoniously. It was in light of this that the faculty via the Student staff adviser Dr N.E. Ojukwu-Ogba gave the elected excos the "express mandate" to carry on with their duties as they were already behind schedule.

     President Garrick in the same vein addressed everyone present to wipe away the notion from their minds that the members of parliament and the President were enemies and opponents. He said that they were all working for the benefit and future of LAWSA and therefore had no enmity between them. The President issued a warning to his would be detractors who may want to frustrate his efforts and "witch-hunt" him to desist from such act as any of such efforts will be met with failure, and the congress members would not allow that.

     It would be recalled that President Garrick Nosa defeated Nosayaba Douglas in the LAWSA elections that held in August, 2015, replacing the Lauretta led LAWSA government.