The House of Repres-entatives has said a proposal to legalise civil servants’ participation in partisan politics is debatable and will be passed as appropriate.
The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Abdulrazak Namdas, who stated this in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH said, “It is a not a matter that would take a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. It would be debated. This is democracy; the National Assembly is the legislature. Such a matter will normally come through a bill.”
In Nigeria, civil servants are barred from being members of political parties or holding political office while still working as a civil servant.
A judgment of the Supreme Court in 2003 held that civil servants could be members of political parties and associations as an expression of their fundamental human rights of free association.
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