Sometimes one wonders what drives the men of the Upper House, the Senate, to do what they do. Take for instance the motion directing the Federal Ministry of Finance to stop the disbursement of statutory allocations to Enugu state’s 17 local government councils until the election of local council chairmen.

Well, one had thought that the Supreme Court had settled the matter. Statutory allocations are no rewards for good behaviour; neither can they be withheld as punishment for bad conduct by governors. They are guaranteed under the law. Secondly, the power to make laws for local councils, reside in the State’s House of Assembly, not the Senate. The nation waits to see how the Senate hopes to enforce this obviously misdirected ‘resolution’.

I guess it is about time we got some of our distinguished senators on a programme of continuing education on the laws of the land, since many of them seem so out of date.