Our president has been hard at work at parliament from long before its official opening, speedily assenting to as many Bills as he can before the fifth democratic parliament closes on 29 March ahead of the election, leaving outstanding Bills to lapse - or become the problem of the incoming parliament.
At the last count before going to press parliament had 57 Bills in the queue, but it's hard to keep up with the president, who is fully into law-making overdrive. On just one day during recess, January 16, he assented to five Bills, but they were all Money Bills, which makes them kind of urgent.
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